An animated map of Canada and the United States. Radio communications Tower over hilltop. Workers installing underground communications cables. Telephone communications in everyday life. A woman homemaker in a house holding a young child and talking on a corded telephone. The little girl also talks on the telephone. A business man talking on corded telephone. Men and women working in an office. Man in suit in a business office talking on a yellow corded telephone. Teletype machines of United Press International and other news agencies operating on a long table. Man looks at a screen and speaks over the phone. A cable ship laying communications lines at sea. An animated map showing the undersea cable connections to various places.
Emergency response and disaster preparations in the United States. Stockpiles of emergency equipment and supplies. Scene of storm damage and recovery actions. Electric utility response and repairs. A huge emergency diesel generator. Laying emergency by-pass cable with a convoy of tractors and cable-laying machinery. Emergency communications cables circumventing areas of disaster.
Aerial view of a Dew line installation. Pacific Western DC-3 lands on a snow runway. An icebreaker ship navigates arctic waters. Plows remove snow from a runway. A C-119 aircraft airdrops supplies to a Dew line site. Carpenters work in arctic conditions. Blowing snow obscures a site. Towers being erected in milder weather. Geodesic spheres being assembled. Aerial view of a completed Dew line installation. Barren snow-covered landscape. Workers using dog teams and sleds. View from sled of husky dog team pulling ahead. Aerial views of completed Dew Line installations. Ground views of installations.
A radar antenna turning inside an early warning system radar's geodesic spherical cover. Information from early warning system radars being shown on the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters displays, in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. A NORAD radar site. An early warning radar site on an off-shore platform, A U.S. Air Force EC-121 Lockheed Constellation Warning Star aircraft in flight. A U.S. Navy ship equipped with early warning radar. View of NORAD Headquarters Command Center.
North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, during the Cold War. NORAD Commander, USAF General Lawrence S. Kuter and Canadian Deputy enter the control room. Airman reads incoming teletype message and updates data on status board. View of a NORAD building. Air Defense controllers viewing radar screens. Two F-102 fighter intercepters are scrambled. They fire air-to-air missiles. A BOMARC missile is fired. Nike missiles are fired.
Footage of cold war defense simulation exercise: Airmen post information on displays in a Command Post of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC). View of senior officers in upper tier of NORAD Headquarters Command Center or War Room in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Duty officers communicate by telephone. SAC B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are ordered to take off. Command Post duty officer reports to a General. Red telephone (rotary type) on the General's desk. (NORAD is North American Aerospace Defense Command).
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