In October 1963, the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) opened its Canadian operations centre at the base.

He had copies made of these pictures, fortunately, and turned over the originals to two men who claimed to represent the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD).

To substantiate this claim, he produced a 196 1 North American Air Defence Command press release, which stated: "Bomarcs can be equipped with either high explosive or nuclear warheads."

Graham offered qualified support to Canadian participation, in part because he feared nonparticipation would marginalize the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) within continental defence arrangements.

The history of his relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the North American Air Defence Command indicated that Diefenbaker had led Canada into military undertakings which he had then prevented from being met.

For this reason, plus its friendship with the United States, on 12 September 1957, Canada and the U.S. formed NORAD, the North American Air Defence Command, an organization that unified the two countries' air defences into a single, coordinated, fast-reacting, continent-wide network.

A request had been received from North American Air Defence Command Headquarters at Colorado Springs, for the Canadian government to bring its forces to a state of readiness known as "Defcon 3" and to initiate "certain other measures to improve the operational capability" of the Canadian area of command.