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DEW Line
[Distant Early Warning Line]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Dewline
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a 3,000-mile network of radar stations and airstrips for interceptor aircraft, extending from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Baffin Island and intended for defence against attack by air.
Quotations
1957
Some thought the just-finished Dewline and nearly all the rest of our defense apparatus had become obsolete.
1965
Conditions are even worse now than in the early '50s, when there was heavy air traffic to the DEW Line, Ungava and other regions.