WarGames6 - NORAD Traditional Cache
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North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a joint organization of Canada and the United States that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the two countries. Headquarters NORAD and the NORAD/USNORTHCOM command center are located at Peterson Air Force Base. The nearby Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker has the Alternate Command Center.
blah blah blah. Whatever. The MOST important thing about NORAD is that they use their satellites to follow Santa on his Christmas Eve trip round the world each year. Oh yea they do.
The program began on December 24, 1955 when a Sears department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper which told children that they could telephone Santa Claus and included a number for them to call. However, the telephone number printed was incorrect and calls instead came through to Colorado Springs' Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center. Colonel Shoup, who was on duty that night, told his staff to give all children that called in a "current location" for Santa Claus. A tradition began which continued when the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) replaced CONAD in 1958.
http://www.noradsanta.org/
http://www.xmasclock.com/
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