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The DEW Line Years: voice from the coldest Cold War.

Publication: Arctic
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The DEW Line Years: voice from the coldest Cold War.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
THE DEW LINE YEARS: VOICES FROM THE COLDEST COLD WAR.By FRANCES JEWEL DICKSON Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-895900-87-3. 208 p., b&w illus. Soft-bound. Cdn$19.95.

Stretching more than 3000 miles from Alaska to Greenland along the 69th parallel, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line was a tremendous feat of geographical engineering that re-shaped the North American Arctic. Conceived as a response to the Soviet bomber threat in the early thermonuclear age, this technological marvel embodied the Cold War marriage of science and geo-strategy. It was also a human story, lived by personnel who conceived, built, and operated the radar and communication system. Several studies have traced the origins of the system, notably Joseph Jockel's (1987) No Boundaries Upstairs, and others, such as R. Quinn Duffy's (1988) The Road to...



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