• NAKA AND WARD Distant-Early-Warning Line Radars: The Quest for Automatic Signal Detection Distant Early Warning Line Radars: The Quest for Automatic Signal Detection

• Main Authors: F. Robert Naka, William W. Ward
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cape Dyer; Dyer; Baffin; Newfoundland; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.163.2517; http://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol12_no2/12_2distantearly.pdf

■ In the early 1950s, the threat of manned bombers carrying nuclear weapons across the arctic region was of paramount concern in continental defense. The 1952 Summer Study at MIT recommended the development of an earlywarning radar line across the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada, from Cape Lis...