What is North American Aerospace Defense Command?
'''North American Aerospace Defense Command''' ('''NORAD''') is a joint organization of [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] that provides aerospace warning and defense for [[North America]].<ref>[http://www.norad.mil NORAD Official Site]</ref> It was founded on May 12, 1958, as the '''North American Air Defense Command'''. Its main technical facility has been the [[Cheyenne Mountain|Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center]] in [[Colorado]], and for this reason NORAD is sometimes unofficially referred to as '''Cheyenne Mountain'''. == References == {{reflist}} {{military-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Military organizations]]