The North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) agreement between Canada and the United States was formalized on this date in Washington in 1958. All these decades later it remains a pillar of continental defence policy. At NORAD’s website today the success of the agreement is described as follows. It makes for interesting reading in this, the age of Donald J. Trump.
“Through outstanding bi-national cooperation, NORAD has proven itself effective in its roles of watching, warning, and responding. NORAD continues to play an important role in the defense of Canada and the U.S by evolving to meet the changing threat. The events of September 11, 2001 demonstrated NORAD’s continued relevance to North American security. Today, NORAD provides civil authorities with a potent military response capability to counter domestic airspace threats.”
You can read more about the history of NORAD at this link: https://www.norad.mil/About-NORAD/NORAD-History/
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.