Film: Seconds For Survival. Actor Raymond Massey introduces film. Very small, 2-person sail boats on a bay. A teletype message is sent to affected East Coast stations, issuing small craft warnings due to approaching storm. Coast Guard station receives the message and dispatches patrol boat to warn boaters in the bay. They intercept the little sail boats and hail them with instructions to return to the harbor. The storm arrives bringing strong winds and waves at the waterfront.
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.
Cold War missile defense exercise: Military officers confer at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs). Bomarc missile is raised for firing. Civilian officials sound alarms. Civil Defense worker directs people to underground fallout shelters. Nike and Spartan missiles are raised for firing.
Nike and Bomarc missiles readied during missile defense readiness exercise in Cold War. (Simulated) enemy aircraft detected on radar. NORAD F-102 interceptors in flight. NORAD Command Post. NORAD Dew line detects enemy intruders. Information is updated on NORAD Command Post displays at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. General Lawrence S. Kuter, NORAD Commander, actuates red speaker phone to the White House.
Cold War missile defense exercise for readiness (dramatized). Feverish activity inside Command Post of NORAD (North American Air Defense) in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Orders issued to utilize Titan missiles. Red light blinking. Views of control panels with various buttons and keys, and hands on controls for missile launch. A Titan missile is launched.
Many launches of Titan and Bomarc missiles are seen. Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules missiles are launched against various drone target aircraft and destroy them. Multiple different launch scenes and drone target hits shown in succession.
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