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United States Air Force
Lincoln Laboratory
Systems Research Group
General Electric
Sylvania Electric
Baker Ford
Patti-McDonald
Empire Gas and Engineering
Miller Brothers
Bohannan Huston, Incorporated, contractor
CH2M HILL, contractor
Kaszynski, Gary, project manager
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Aerial view of clear AFS site, Official photograph BMEWS Project by C. Henry, 5 July 1962, Photographic Services, Riverton, NJ, BMEWS, clear as negative no. A-3945. - Clear Air Force Station, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Site II, One mile west of mile marker 293.5 on Parks Highway, 5 miles southwest of Anderson, Anderson, Denali Borough, AK
Depicted place Alaska; Denali Borough; Anderson
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Medium 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER AK-30-A-96
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  • Significance: The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was constructed in 1958-61 in response to the threat of a potential Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) attack from the Soviet Union (demonstrated by the October 1957 launch of Sputnik). BMEWS Site II at Clear AFS in Alaska was one of three radar sites (the others were located in Greenland and Britain) that covered the polar regions. Although BMEWS was an expansion of existing radar technology rather than a significant innovation, it represented a major engineering achievement. MBEWS was an important part of the deterrence strategy (Mutual Assured Destruction) developed by both sides in the Cold War. It provided a minimum of fifteen minutes advance warning for a nuclear counterstrike, but not a missile defense. BMEWS remained in operation throughout the remainder of the Cold War, although the technology became increasingly antiquated and difficult to maintain in later years.
  • Survey number: HAER AK-30-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1958-1961 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1980 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 2000 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 2001 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ak0486.photos.193581p
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Object location64° 20′ 39.01″ N, 149° 11′ 12.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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