![]() "National Emergency Airborne Command Post internal configuration." Caption from Department of Defense photograph, 5 April 1976. Source: National Archives, Still Pictures Branch, RG 342B, box 731, E-4A. Quotation from caption on photo taken by Sgt. This aircraft will be designated the E-4A and become the new Night Watch Airplane." Four Boeing 747s were modified to serve as the National Emergency Airborne Command Post for the National Command Authority, the President and the Secretary of Defense. "3/4s front view of a Boeing 747 Airborne Command post aircraft taking off. ![]() Source: National Archives, Still Pictures Branch, RG 306-PSE, box 79 "Computers are used by specialists in NORAD Headquarters to keep track of information received daily." Caption from U.S. "Satellite watchers in the Space Computational Center, NORAD Headquarters, track all the satellites orbiting earth." Caption from U.S. Source: Library of Congress Manuscript Division, William E. Odom listened in on the Pentagon conference call that concluded that the warning signs of incoming missiles had been a false alarm. Source: National Archives, Still Pictures Branch, RG 306-PSE, box 79.ĭuring the middle of the night on 6 June 1980, Zbigniew Brzezinski's military assistant Colonel William E. This and two related photos in this posting were taken about 1982 so the depiction of NORAD facilities may not correspond exactly to arrangements during 1979-1980. "Command post for all NORAD operations, including the Command's surveillance and warning sensors around the globe." Caption from U.S. FOIA Advisory Committee Oversight Reports.
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