Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Perimeter Acquisition Radar Building, Limited Access Area, between Limited Access Patrol, Nekoma vicinity, Cavalier County, ND

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58 b&w photos
30 data pages
5 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Perimeter Acquisition Radar Building, Limited Access Area, between Limited Access Patrol, Nekoma vicinity, Cavalier County, ND

CALL NUMBER:
HAER ND-9-P

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 58 (4 x 5 and 8 x 10)
Data Page(s): 29 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 5

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER ND-9-P

Building/structure dates: 1972 initial construction

Part of building/structure is in Mountain vicinity, Pembina County, ND.

Significance: It is believed that the plans for deployment and initiation of construction of this facility were instrumental in obtaining Soviet agreement to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and a subsequent decline in Cold War hostilities between the Superpowers. The Perimeter Acquisition Radar Building (PARB) is the only structure of its kind and size in the world. A unique massive, structure, for some time it was the second largest building in the state of North Dakota. The structure, which is steel reinforced concrete, was built to withstand a nuclear blast, termed nuclear hardened. The Perimeter Acquisition Radar is a long-range, phased array radar. It faces north and provides surveillance over the polar region. It can detect and track multiple targets. After the termination of the Safeguard system, the PAR became part of the missile early warning network and has remained operational to date.

SUBJECTS:
NORTH DAKOTA--Cavalier County--Nekoma vicinity
concrete buildings
radar
radar tracking stations

OTHER TITLE:
Perimeter Acquisition Radar Complex
Building No. 830
Cavalier Air Force Station
Cavalier Air Force Station

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nd0078

CONTROL #:
ND0078

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