07-09-2024, 07:23 PM
I remember that time fairly well.
We were taught to shelter under our desks, people were building bunkers etc.
For a time I was up in the arctic refurbishing the old DEW line sites (Distant Early Warning) back in the 80’s. These were sites that detected Soviet bombers and then scrambled fighters via NORAD. Very remote and unmanned, small manned sites and larger ones that were essentially small communities. We were upgrading them to the North Warning System (NWS).
I was also in other areas in the 80’s where they were flying submarine-hunting aircraft and got to hang out with the crews. Cool times.
Interesting fact that there were actually 3 DEW lines, one essentially at the Canada/US border then it was decided that it wasn’t north enough so they rebuilt further north at the 55th parallel before finally way further north for the last time.
I worked in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 93-95, and with the infrastructure I saw I always wondered how they could ever have been such a threat. Small cities of 40k people with no running water…
All their money went into the Cold War weapons…
Tecate
We were taught to shelter under our desks, people were building bunkers etc.
For a time I was up in the arctic refurbishing the old DEW line sites (Distant Early Warning) back in the 80’s. These were sites that detected Soviet bombers and then scrambled fighters via NORAD. Very remote and unmanned, small manned sites and larger ones that were essentially small communities. We were upgrading them to the North Warning System (NWS).
I was also in other areas in the 80’s where they were flying submarine-hunting aircraft and got to hang out with the crews. Cool times.
Interesting fact that there were actually 3 DEW lines, one essentially at the Canada/US border then it was decided that it wasn’t north enough so they rebuilt further north at the 55th parallel before finally way further north for the last time.
I worked in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 93-95, and with the infrastructure I saw I always wondered how they could ever have been such a threat. Small cities of 40k people with no running water…
All their money went into the Cold War weapons…
Tecate
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