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Northern Warning Systems: Detecting Threats Across the Arctic Frontier

Canada's northern approaches have been monitored by warning systems since the early Cold War, when the threat of Soviet bombers carrying nuclear weapons made early detection a matter of national survival. Those original systems have evolved through multiple generations, yet the fundamental challenge remains: providing sufficient warning time for North American defenses to respond to threats approaching across the Arctic.