Ronald Reagan Visits the North American Aerospace Defense Command
CAPTAIN RON NASMAN: Right now, all we can do is provide warning.
We have no capability to shoot down any strategic missiles coming into North America.
JEFFREY KAYE: That same message reportedly resonated with Ronald Reagan in 1979, when as a Presidential candidate, he visited NORAD. Four years later, from the White House, President Reagan announced an ambitious project.
PRESIDENT REAGAN: What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?
More information
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Wikipedia: North American Aerospace Defense Command
en.wikipedia.org
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NORAD Selected Chronology
www.fas.org
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(Google Books) - Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War By Frances Fitzgerald
books.google.com