Others say: What are we shooting down?

In 1957, during the frosty years of the Cold War, President Eisenhower and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker established the North American Air Defense Command in anticipation of defending the continent from Soviet long-range bombers--Sputnik was a few months away--and NORAD went on alert.

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