But they inadvertently listed the top-secret phone number of the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor, also based in Colorado Springs. Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red ...

Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time.

NORAD is also taking calls at a telephone hotline ... Shoup of the Continental Air Defense Command received a call on a red telephone at his windowless command post in Colorado Springs.

NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured ... Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list.“ ...

Air Force General Glen VanHerck, NORAD's commander: "24 hours a day, 365 days a year, NORAD defends North America by tracking ...

Santa Claus is already hard at work, and NORAD is keeping track of where that ... on Christmas Eve to answer hundreds of thousands of phone calls and emails that come in from around the world.

now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, along with anxieties about nuclear war.Air Force Col. Harry W. Shoup picked up ...