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Re: Why us? and if us, why this way?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:33:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Here I think you may want to check your recollection better. Who mans the DEW?
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> DEW? Most times I love acronyms...
Distant Early Warning.
The network of radar bases in Alaska and Canada's far north intended to give
the earliest possible terrestrial warning of incoming transpolar missile
attack targeted at either the US or Canada.
Not the most critical defense thing these days with satellites capable of
giving boost phase info but it's been there since ages ago.
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| (...) Thanks Larry--my apologies for being abrupt. (...) DEW? Most times I love acronyms... (...) To this I agree--throwing our hats into the same ring as those who commit atrocities is the wrong thing to do. But here we sit in the 21st centruy, in (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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