North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a joint organization of two countries in North America - Canada and the United States that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty and defense for North America, except Mexico.[3] It was founded on May 12, 1958 as a joint command between the governments of the Dominion of Canada and the United States, as the North American Air Defense Command. Its main technical facility has been the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center in Colorado, and for this reason NORAD is sometimes unofficially referred to as Cheyenne Mountain. In addition, in Canada East and Canada West Sector Air Operations Control Centres are located in the underground complex at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) North Bay in Ontario in Canada Download Links: Password: Inspired
