ICEBREAKER INTERNATIONAL's first album Distant Early Warning was released in October of 1999 on Aesthetics records, Chicago. Funding was provided by the NATOarts Board of Directors.
The distant early warning system is a series of radar stations which stretch along the northern periphery of Canada and Alaska. Constructed during the height of the cold war, these stations were intended to alert North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states in the event of a Soviet nuclear strike over the pole. Although now mostly unmanned, the distant early warning system continues to operate.
