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Watching for Nuclear Attack at the Top of the World

In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America. Or at least, they were until they went obsolete just a few years later. This video relies on public domain archive footage from: DEW Line Story (1958): https://archive.org/details/dew_line_story_1 https://archive.org/details/dew_line_story_2 Atlas the ICBM (1957): https://archive.org/details/342

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  • Originally Aired July 2, 2018
  • Runtime 3 minutes
  • Production Code Et3YW_qS_1o
  • Production Company Pad 26 Limited
  • Network YouTube
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