NORAD, Colorado Springs. The Thule radar went online last week. While top executives from Bell & Howell and IBM were visiting, the alert level was progressively increased from 1 to 5, which means 99.9% certainty that the United States was under Soviet nuclear attack. The emergency procedure was initiated, and one wondered how this could be true, given that Khrushchev was in New York at the UN… only to discover that the new Thule radar had mistaken the newly risen full moon for a cluster of Soviet missiles.
