The DEW line was one of three radar early warning systems of the time. If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and ...

In 1957, the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America, went into operation.

The DEW system, the Distant early Warning Line was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada. They are being dismantled by the government but the extreme remote nature of ...