12 Facts About NORAD

CINCNORAD maintains the NORAD headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

NORAD has administratively divided the North American landmass into three regions:.

Alaskan NORAD Region maintains continuous capability to detect, validate and warn off any atmospheric threat in its area of operations from its Regional Operations Control Center at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, Alaska.

Canadian air defense forces assigned to NORAD include 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Bagotville, Quebec.

Continental NORAD Region is the component of NORAD that provides airspace surveillance and control and directs air sovereignty activities for the Contiguous United States .

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NORAD is not responsible for Hawaii, Guam, and other U S islands in the Pacific Ocean, which are mostly within the Area of responsibility of United States Pacific Command, which has its headquarters in Hawaii.

Two December 1958 plans submitted by NORAD had "average yearly expenditure of around five and one half billions", including "cost of the accelerated Nike Zeus program" and three Ballistic Missile Early Warning System sites.

The Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker's planned mission was expanded in August 1960 to "a hardened center from which CINCNORAD would supervise and direct operations against space attack as well as air attack" The Secretary of Defense assigned on 7 October 1960, "operational command of all space surveillance to Continental Air Defense Command and operational control to North American Air Defense Command ".

NORAD was renamed North American Aerospace Defense Command in March 1981.

In 1989 NORAD operations expanded to cover counter-drug operations, for example, tracking of small aircraft entering and operating within the United States and Canada.

NORAD command center located under Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado is a setting of the 1983 film WarGames and the television series Jeremiah and Stargate SG-1.

In season 25 episode 4 of the TV series South Park, NORAD is hacked into by Mr Mackey using late 1980s computer hardware.