How NORAD became the world's official Santa-tracker

Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

It was December 1955, the height of the Cold War, when the red phone on Col. Harry Shoup’s desk at the Continental Air Defense Command began to ring. Only an elite few knew the number. Odds were good that a four-star general from the Pentagon was on the other end of the line. Shoup reached for...

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