In Popular Culture
Beginning in 1955 when a local Sears store in Colorado misprinted the telephone number for Santa, Air Defense Command NORAD Tracks Santa provides follows Santa Claus' mythical and Christmas Eve journey around the world.
Cheyenne Mountain is a setting of the 1983 film WarGames and the Stargate television series. NORAD is described as being a reason for the creation of the antagonists of the Terminator (franchise) films.
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