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Explore the history of the Canadian air defence of North America during the Cold War.

NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic joust in the skies. Go deep underground to the Command Centre as the Air Weapons controllers plot the air war on their radar screens. Visit the radar sites deep in the Canadian bush as they struggle to provide the radar data for an electronic air battle happening overhead.

An actual NORAD exercise on 10 May 1973, called Amalgam Mute, is used as an example. This exercise tested that NORAD was honouring its motto: Deter, Detect, Destroy, and was protecting North America from aerial threat. There is an extensive explanation of the aircraft, squadrons, weapons, radar, and radar sites involved.

Included are two personal accounts of the first interception of a Soviet Bear bomber off the coast of Canada, and the first Canadian fighter interceptor pilot to win the coveted United States Air Force Top Gun award.

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NORAD AND THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT NORAD AND THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT - photo 1
NORAD
AND THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT
NORAD
AND THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT
CANADAS SECRET ELECTRONIC AIR WAR
GORDON A. A. WILSON
TO MY FAMILY Emily My True Love The airspeed slower than me The altitude - photo 2
TO MY FAMILY
Emily
My True Love
The airspeed slower than me
The altitude below me
The fuel in my tanks
The wind beneath my wings
Mark, Jennifer, Cameron & Emmett
The welcoming runway lights
On a dark and stormy night
Copyright Gordon A.A. Wilson, 2011
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Wilson, Gordon A. A.
NORAD and the Soviet nuclear threat : Canadas secret electronic air war / Gordon A.A. Wilson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also issued in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-4597-0410-7
1. Air defenses--Canada--History. 2. Cold War. I. Title.
UG735.C3W54 2011 358.4030971 C2011-906072-8
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario - photo 3
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and Livres Canada Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.
J. Kirk Howard, President
www.dundurn.com
Dundurn
3 Church Street, Suite 500
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5E 1M2
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
My wife Emily for her continued total support and encouragement, without reservation, from the very beginning to the last words. Without her moral support this book would not have been completed
My daughter Jennifer, the librarian, for her invaluable professional editing services and guidance. My son-in-law Cameron, who looked after their newborn son Emmett while Jennifer wielded her pencil.
My son Mark, a pilot, who gave me the inspiration to write about my era as he lives his own flying adventures.
Joan and Chuck Gauld who were continually amazed of the progress of Joans little brother.
Our friends, in alphabetical order, who supported me through words and gesture in my fight against multiple sclerosis which at times interfered with my writing progress: Jean and Ted Andrew, Tamara and David Douglas, Chrissie and Colm Egan, Dorothy and Bill Glendinning, Jette and Terje Hartvigsen, Angela and Rick Hovey, Mayling and Barrie Laycock, Judy and Geoff Pickard, Lynn and Harold Pratsides, Wayne Ralph, Anne and Peter Tilbury.
Congregation of St Johns Presbyterian Church, White Rock, British Columbia, whose Sunday enquiries as to my progress were very supportive.
Lois Peterson, author, my creative writing course instructor, who opened my eyes to a new endeavour, writing, and gave me the tools to complete it.
Wayne Ralph, author, for his professional advice during the whole process.
Nicola Pierce, author, for compiling the comprehensive index.
Mansel Robinson, Surrey writer in residence 2009, for allowing me to read my work at a public forum.
Nelle Oosterom, assistant editor, Canadas History magazine, who schooled me in my first writing project for the magazine, which subsequently became this books foundation.
Colm Egan, who looked after/sorted/salvaged/altered the images for this book.
Ron Bell, who captured the very essence of the book and what I wanted to say in his Foreword.
Rick Hovey, former Voodoo pilot, artist, for his continued enthusiastic support and contributing the chapter sketches.
Rob Dunlop, who tried to get classified material released from the library and public archives and found out that NORAD Secret information is still Secret after forty years.
The interviewees for their time and anecdotes, many of which I did not use due to publishing constraints all the stories are suitable for another book: Ron Bell, Roger Blais, Bill Bland, Sydney Burrows, Lowell Butters, Nick Chester, Malcolm Dewar, Jack Donnelly, Rob Dunlop, Dan Farrell, Randy Faulkner, Doug Fitzpatrick, Richard Girouard, Jim Graham, Maurice Hanberg, Rick Hovey, Bob Keith, Dennis Kelleher, Barrie Laycock, Gene Lukan, Larry Lundquist, Peter Maunsell, George McAffer, Andy McGraw, Robert Merrick, Bob Moore, Gordon Moore, Ron Neeve, Grant Nicholls, Pierre Parent, Ken Peacock, Ken Penny, Jim Pocklington, Wayne Ralph, Roy Roch, Marty Schlosser, Wayne Scott, Richard Sopczak, John Stuart, David Trotter, Lew Twambley, Jerry Vernon, Gary Wiffen, and John Wiggin.
Jerry Vernon, for verifying/supplying specific aircraft history and images and being one of the most knowledgeable historical aviation authorities around.
Janet Lacroix, Department of National Defence, Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Center, Ottawa, for researching/duplicating images.
Dr Stephen Harris, Sabrina Fairchild and Valerie Cosbourn, Directorate of History and Heritage, Ottawa, for help accessing/researching military files.
Sydney Burrows, John Stuart, Book of Remembrance, Ottawa.
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
Surrey Public Library, Semiahmoo Branch and Inter Library Loans Dept., British Columbia.
University of British Columbia, Library and Continuing Education, Vancouver.
Aviation Museums: Bob Moore at Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton; Calgary Aero Space Museum, Alberta; Nanton Air Museum, Alberta; Terry Brunner, Bob Fowles (prepared CF-100 for crew images), Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley, British Columbia; Ian Leslie, Library, Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa; British Columbia Aviation Museum, North Saanich; Alberta Aviation Museum, Edmonton.
Randall Brooks, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, for access to Air Weapons Controllers scope.
Bruce Grayson, modeller, for assembling the CF-100 Canuck and CF-101 Voodoo models for my book signing table.
John Kimberley, Malcolm Nason and Bill Powderly for keeping the romantic vision of Airspotting and aircraft photography alive for fifty years.
Joseph Pettican, Project Editor, Amberley Publishing, for checking the manuscript and making sure it made the required standard. We are still talking!
For those of you who I have not mentioned, due my own oversight, rest assured that your contribution was greatly appreciated and added to the success of this book, my apologies.
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