[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Robert Meuser]

CONELRAD was intended to thwart bombers. When ICBMS became the primary 
threat we got EBS.

On 6/15/12 10:07 AM, Alan Peterson wrote:
>>>> JimT told us:
> This way, the signal on 640 (and also the signal on 1240) would appear to be
> coming from various locations and so was useless for navigation.<<<
>
> I wasn't in radio when CONELRAD was a valid and active process, but it always seemed to me that, even in the days of small thermonuke weapons, an incoming missile could just latch on to *one* of the 640s or 1240s before the frequency rotated locations, say to itself "close enough!", and still manage to toast everything in a five-mile radius. Even a confused missile will faw down and go boom
>