A curated archive of Cold War-era defense technology
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Title Year Author/Source Class.
ADSEC Final Report - the Valley Committee (1950) 1950 Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee (chair: George E. Valley) CLASSIFIED (SINCE DECLASSIFIED) A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946-1980 1980 (first edition 1973) Lloyd H. Cornett Jr. and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center UNCLASSIFIED A History of the DEW Line, 1946-1964 (ADC Historical Study No. 31) 1965 Air Defense Command, Directorate of Historical Services (author: Thomas W. Ray) CONFIDENTIAL (SINCE DECLASSIFIED) Battle in the Ionosphere (English Translation) 2008 Aleksandr Babakin (author); AI-assisted translation UNCLASSIFIED Cabinet Conclusions on the Mid-Canada Line (1965) 1965 Cabinet of Canada / Privy Council Office SECRET (DECLASSIFIED; LAC ACCESS CODE 90: OPEN) Dudinka Troposcatter Facility, USSR (NPIC Basic Imagery Interpretation Report, February 1969) 1969 National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) TOP SECRET (DECLASSIFIED) Final EIS: Operation of the PAVE PAWS Radar System at Beale AFB (1980) 1980 United States Air Force UNCLASSIFIED HAER No. CA-319-A: PAVE PAWS Technical Equipment Building 2002 (fieldwork 1998) Karen J. Weitze / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service UNCLASSIFIED / PUBLIC HAER No. CA-319: Beale AFB PAVE PAWS Written Report 2002 (fieldwork 1998) Karen J. Weitze / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service UNCLASSIFIED / PUBLIC Mid-Canada Line ASR-3 Radar Removals 1960–1961 Department of National Defence / RCAF DECLASSIFIED (FORMERLY SECRET) NORAD/CONAD Historical Summaries (1958-1959) 1959 NORAD/CONAD Directorate of Command History SECRET (DECLASSIFIED) Project Wood Duck: CW Doppler Detection Experiments 1954–1955 Defence Research Board / RCAF DECLASSIFIED Search for Tropospheric Scatter Communication Sites: Amderma, Tiksi, and Dudinka, USSR (CIA/PIR-61041) 1965 CIA Imagery Analysis Division TOP SECRET (DECLASSIFIED) Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program 1997 David F. Winkler / USAF Air Combat Command UNCLASSIFIED Soviet Troposcatter Equipment Locations in Europe (NPIC PIR-024/77, September 1977) 1977 National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) TOP SECRET (DECLASSIFIED) The SAGE Air Defense System: A Personal History (Jacobs, 1986) 1986 John F. Jacobs / The MITRE Corporation UNCLASSIFIED Troposcatter Facilities: Types and Deployment, USSR (CIA briefing notes, 23 March 1966) 1966 Central Intelligence Agency TOP SECRET (DECLASSIFIED) Tropospheric Scatter Principles and Applications (Collins Radio Company, March 1960) 1960 Collins Radio Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa UNCLASSIFIED (APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION A) TWIN DISH Antenna Orientations, USSR (NPIC memorandum for NSA, 6 August 1973) 1973 National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) TOP SECRET / TALENT-KEYHOLE (DECLASSIFIED) US Patent 4,121,298: Central Processing Unit for Numbers Represented in the System of Residual Classes 1978-10-17 Israel Yakovlevich Akushsky, Vladimir Mikhailovich Burtsev, Bulat Esenovich Duisenov, Ivan Timofeevich Pak, Anurbek Orymbekovich Zhautykov UNCLASSIFIED Why the Over-the-Horizon Radar System Was Shut Down (JPRS translation, 1991) 1991 Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS); original article by Aleksandr Babakin UNCLASSIFIED (APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED)