The Green Pine
UHF
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communications system was designed to relay
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile compon ...
(SAC)
Emergency Action Message
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s (EAMs) to SAC aircraft. Green Pine was designed in 1967.
Each Green Pine station was equipped with a variety of communications systems, to ensure that nuclear
command and control messages would reach nuclear
strategic bombers
A strategic bomber is a medium- to long-range Penetrator (aircraft), penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war. Unl ...
in northern latitudes.
Locations
*
Adak, Alaska
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Strategic Air Command Regulation 100-24 Vol III: SAC Communications System Operations/EWO Support Requirements, 6 Jul 1979
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* Naval Station Argentia
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, Newfoundland
* Barter Island
Barter Island is an island located on the Arctic coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, east of Arey Island in the Beaufort Sea. It is about four miles (6 km) long and about two miles (3 km) wide at its widest point.
Until the late 19th ...
* Cambridge Bay
Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: Inuktitut syllabics, Inuktitut: ; 2021 Canadian census, 2021 population 1,760; Census geographic units of Canada#Population centres, population centre 1,403) is a Hamlet (place)#Canada, hamlet located on Victoria Is ...
* Cape Dyer
* Cape Parry
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* Cold Bay
Cold Bay (,; Sugpiaq: ''Pualu'') is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 108, but at the 2020 census this had reduced to 50.
Cold Bay is one of the main commercial centers of t ...
* Dye 3
Dye 3 is an ice core site and previously part of the DYE Stations, DYE section of the Distant Early Warning Line, Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, located at (, 2480 masl) in Greenland. As a DEW line base, it was disbanded in years 1990/1991.
An ...
* Hall Beach
Sanirajak (Inuktitut meaning ''the shoreline''), Syllabics: ᓴᓂᕋᔭᒃ), formerly known as Hall Beach until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit settlement within the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, approximately south of Igloolik.
Hist ...
* Melville
* Keflavik, Iceland
* Point Barrow
Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, northeast of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow). It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at , south of the North Pole. (The northe ...
* Thule, Greenland
See also
* Survivable Low Frequency Communications System
The AN/FRC-117 Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS) was a communications system designed to be able to operate, albeit at low data transfer rates, during and after a nuclear attack.
The system used both very low frequency (VLF), ...
(SLFCS)
* Post Attack Command and Control System
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* Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries
**An Post, the Irish national postal service
**Canada Post, Canadian postal service
**Deutsche Post, German postal s ...
(PACCS)
* Ground Wave Emergency Network
The Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) was a US Air Force command and control communications system, deployed briefly between 1992 and 1994, intended for use by the United States government to facilitate military communications before, during a ...
(GWEN)
* Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network The Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) is a network of systems providing uninterrupted communications throughout the pre-, trans-, and post-nuclear warfare environment. At minimum, MEECN is designed to provide a one-way flow ...
(MEECN)
* Emergency Rocket Communications System
The Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS) was designed to provide a reliable and survivable emergency communications method for the United States National Command Authority, using a UHF repeater placed atop a Blue Scout rocket or Minu ...
(ERCS)
References
External links
Green Pine System: Loring AFB, Maine
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Military radio systems of the United States
Military communications of the United States
United States nuclear command and control