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Remember the Bomarc Affair: Canada’s Identity Crisis Goes Back Decades
A notable experience occurred in what’s become known historically as the Bomarc Missile Controversy. In 1958, the American aerospace firm, Boeing, and the Michigan Aeronautical Research Center ...
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Bomarc nuclear missile explosion at McGuire AFB Fort Dix in 1960
While the missiles were never used to strike a foreign target, one did explode in its New Jersey shelter. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Tech At the height of the Cold War, the United ...
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National Affairs: THE U.S. MISSILE PROGRAM
The U.S. is nonetheless now developing 25 defensive missiles, with prime attention to the Air Force’s area-defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft ...
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National Affairs: Historic Week
At Kingston, N.Y. demonstrators pressed a button on an enormous IBM-built SAGE computer, launched an air-breathing Air Force Bomarc missile from a pad at Cape Canaveral. Guided by Kingston ...
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The Voice of Women
In the fall of 1958, at the height of the Cold War between United States and the Soviet Union, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker agreed to accept 56 Bomarc missiles from the United States and deploy ...