abbr. North American Air Defense Command,北美防空联合司令部
NORAD tracks of bombers and missiles.
This is Thatcher's first trip to Colorado, and she plans to squeeze in visits to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and the Strategic Defense Initiative National Test Facility and NORAD in Colorado Springs on Friday.
In 1979, a technician placed a training tape with missile warning events into a newly installed computer tracking system, and the command center thought the United States was under attack and went on alert, NORAD officials said.
The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) launched two Air National Guard F-16 fighters from a base in Maine.
"The way you're going to stop the drug war is at the user level, you're not going to stop it at the interdiction level," said Kutyna, a four-star general and Vietnam veteran who assumed command of NORAD in April.