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The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, And Environments Of Warning, Jordan Steingard
The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, And Environments Of Warning, Jordan Steingard
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The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line was a Cold War era project aimed at providing advanced warning of incoming Soviet attack via the northern periphery of Canada and the United States. The Line was comprised of radar stations across the 69th parallel, spanning from Western Alaska to Baffin Island, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Academic institutions and research labs, private corporations, and military entities collaborated to develop the DEW Line.
The domes used to shield the radar from the extreme terrain were designed by architectural icon Buckminster Fuller, who was elaborating upon a symbolic language of security …