SAGE was developed in response to the Cold War threat posed by Soviet nuclear weapons and long-range bombers.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation

"SAGE was developed in response to the Cold War threat posed by Soviet nuclear weapons and long-range bombers."

MIT Lincoln Laboratory traces the air-defense effort that became SAGE to the Soviet atomic bomb, long-range bomber capability, and the resulting US need for continental air defense.

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Source title SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System

Source authors MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Source year 2026

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