The population of Frobisher Bay increased rapidly during the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW line, a system of radar stations, see North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD )) in the mid-1950s.

* 1955-Frobisher Bay becomes the centre for U. S. Canada DEW Line construction operations

The RCA Service Corporation provided large numbers of staff for the Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line.

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Canadian troops were stationed in Germany throughout the Cold War, and Canada joined with the Americans to erect defences against Soviet attack, such as the DEW Line.

* July 31 – The DEW Line begins operation

* July 31 – The Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line, a chain of radar stations designed to warn the United States and Canada of Soviet bombers approaching North America, begins operations.

Among other accomplishments, it cited development of medium-and long-range bombers ( including the B-52s put into service during the 1950s ) and ICBMs ; installation of a continental defense system the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW ) Line, the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ( BMEWS ), and Nike surface-to-air missile systems ; production of several nuclear submarines, beginning with the Nautilus in 1954, and Forrestal-type carriers ; and creation of the Defense Communications Agency.

The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

The DEW Line was the northernmost and most capable of three radar lines in Canada and Alaska ; the joint Canadian-US Pinetree Line ran from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, and the Mid-Canada Line ran somewhat north of this.

The DEW Line was a significant achievement among Cold War initiatives in the Arctic.

A successful combination of scientific design and logistical planning of the late 1950s, the DEW Line consisted of a string of continental defence radar installations, ultimately stretching from Alaska to Greenland.

In addition to the secondary Mid-Canada Line and the tertiary Pinetree Line lines, the DEW Line marked the edge of an electronic grid controlled by the new SAGE ( Semi Automatic Ground Environment ) computer system and was ultimately centred on the Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado command hub of the North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ).

The construction of the DEW Line was made possible by a bilateral agreement between the Canadian and American governments and by collaboration between the U. S. Department of Defense and the Bell system of communication companies.

From north to south: Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line, Mid-Canada Line, and Pinetree Line.

From north to south: Distant Early Warning Line | Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line, Mid-Canada Line, and Pinetree Line.

Unlike the jointly-operated Pinetree line and future DEW line, the Mid-Canada line would be funded and operated entirely by the RCAF.

At the same time, the Pinetree Line, the Mid-Canada Line and the DEW Line radar stations, largely operated by the RCAF, were built across Canada because of the growing Soviet nuclear threat.

In 1955 McAndrew AFB was decommissioned and the facility was turned over to the US Navy with USAF personnel moving to other locations in Newfoundland such as Ernest Harmon AFB, Goose AFB or various radar installations being built in conjunction with the Royal Canadian Air Force such as the Pinetree Line, Mid-Canada Line and DEW Line.

Modifications to each operating radar station occurred during the construction phase of the DEW Line system.

In 1985, it was decided that the more capable of the DEW Line stations were to be upgraded with the GE AN / FPS 117 radar systems and merged with newly-built stations into the North Warning System.

Studies were already underway in 1951 to build a much smaller series of much more capable Doppler radar stations somewhat further north, which would develop into the Mid-Canada Line, and just over a year after MCL, a more advanced system in the extreme north was built which would be known as the DEW Line.

Unlike the majority of the DEW Line radar sites which were abandoned or automated, this site which changed in 1989, known as CAM-MAIN, remains a manned operation, with about 18 people, as part of the North Warning System.

With the recent memory of the German V-2 Rocket program, the development of the Russian Nuclear Missile Program, and the subsequent development of the DEW Line ( Distant Early Warning System ) in the high Arctic in the late 1950s / early 1960s, the Department of National Defence felt it prudent to also construct secondary back-up radar stations further south.

Experiments in the US led to the deployment of a bistatic system, designated the AN / FPS-23 fluttar radar, in the North American Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line.

The fluttar radar was a CW fixed-beam bistatic fence radar developed in 1955 to detect penetration of the DEW line by low-flying bombers.

The 109th Airlift Wing had been notified that, almost overnight, one of the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW ) radar sites that it supported in Greenland was going to be shut down.

This facility was closed in June 1958 with the advent of more advanced radar systems such as the Mid-Canada Line and the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW Line ).

The wing airlifted radar equipment and supplies for the construction of the Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line in northern Alaska and Canada from, 1955 – 1956, and thereafter periodically resupplied DEW stations.

** The implementation of school-wide early-warning systems, the school equivalent of a DEW Line-like surveillance operation designed to " prevent the worst cases of school violence ," has been problematic.

In 1968 a Canadian Department of National Defence Paper ( November 27, 1968 ) stated no further funding for research on the DEW Line or air space defense would be allocated due in part to lack of commercial activity The Canadian Government also limit U. S. air activity, base activity, soldier numbers, and contractor numbers ; and the overall operation would be considered and called in all formalities a " joint operation ".

This " active defense " had three key elements: minimizing the extent of the American presence in the Canadian Arctic ; Canadian government input into the management of the DEW Line ; and full Canadian participation in Arctic defense.

The majority of Mid-Canada Line stations were used only briefly from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, as the attack threat changed from bombers to ICBMs ; the early warning role passed almost entirely to the more capable DEW Line further north.

It is argued however that such missiles and arsenal ships pose no serious threat as they would be eliminated due to increasing improvement in ship defenses such as CEC ( cooperative engagement capability ), DEW technology and missile technology.

The American military left Iqaluit in 1963, as intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ) diminished the strategic value of the DEW line and Arctic airbases, but Frobisher Bay remained the government's administrative and logistical centre for much of the eastern Arctic.

A DEW line station was established nearby and eventually was decommissioned.

DEW line station formerly at Point Lay, Alaska.

: A training facility for White Alice and the DEW line tropo-scatter network, between Pecatonica, Illinois to Streator, Illinois.

A directed-energy weapon ( DEW ) emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile.

The car was styled by Geoff Lawson and is based on the Jaguar DEW platform / Ford DEW platform, shared with the Lincoln LS.

DEW line station at Point Lay, Alaska.

While few of the original designs for either buildings or equipment were retained, the trial installations did prove that the DEW Line was feasible, and furnished a background of information that led to the final improved designs of all facilities and final plans for manpower, transportation and supply.