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The Importance of Good Judgment
In 1952, a group of renowned scientists gathered at MIT for what would become known as the summer study group. They were concerned with possibility that Moscow could dispatch long range bombers, planes, armed with nuclear warheads and send them over the polar region undetected. The US government commissioned its scientists to make a detailed study of North American vulnerability to such an attack. What became known as the do line consisting of state of the art radar stations are raid across the Arctic Circle. After less than three years of construction, an integrated chain of 63 radar stations dotted the landscape 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle and stretched 3,000 miles from Alaska to Canada's Baffin Island.