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Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.
During this period the US considered the defense of the US as a part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange.
As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).
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