Canadian Nuclear Weapons

Author : John Clearwater
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550023292
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada written by John Clearwater and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a follow-up to Canadian Nuclear Weapons, the author brings together recently declassified information of nuclear weapons stored, stationed, or lost in Canada.

Author : John Clearwater
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554880904
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada written by John Clearwater and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of his nuclear weapon series, John Clearwater continues to investigate the presence of American nuclear weapons in Canada. In Canadian Nuclear Weapons, Clearwater told the story of nuclear weapons that were in the hands of Canadian forces during the Cold War. In U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada, he goes further, looking at nuclear weapons held by American forces on Canadian soil. His purpose is to bring together until-recently secret information about the nature of the nuclear weapons stored, stationed, or lost in Canada by the United States Air Force and the United States Navy, and combines it with known information about the systems in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The history of the atomic bomb in Canada goes back to the first years immediately after World War II when the U.S. government, under the prodding of the newly created Strategic Air command, began a slow and steady process of talks designed to allow Goose Bay to be groomed for the eventual acceptance of nuclear weapons. Crashes and nuclear accidents. Conspiracies and cover-ups. Clearwater examines them all in great detail. The reader will see for the first time the minutes of Cabinet and the Cabinet Defence Committee meetings in which the storage of nuclear weapons are discussed. Also printed here for the first time are the agreements between Canada and the U.S. for the storage of nuclear weapons. Many of the documents presented here were until recently classified as secret, and many were top secret.

Author : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612342477
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Love the Bomb written by Sean M. Maloney and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning to Love the Bomb, Sean M. Maloney explores the controversial subject of Canada's acquisition of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents, it examines policy, strategy, operational, and technical matters and weaves these seemingly disparate elements into a compelling story that finally unlocks several Cold War mysteries. For example, while U.S. military forces during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis were focused on the Caribbean Sea and the southeastern United States, Canadian forces assumed responsibility for defending the northern United States, with aircraft armed with nuclear depth charges flying patrols and guarding against missile attack by Soviet submarines. This defensive strategy was a closely guarded secret because it conflicted with Canada's image as a peacekeeper and therefore a more passive member of NATO than its ally to the south. It is revealed here for the first time. The place of nuclear weapons in Canadian history has, until now, been a highly secret and misunderstood field subject to rumor, rhetoric, half-truths, and propaganda. Learning to Love the Bomb reveals the truth about Canada's role as a nuclear power.

Author : John Clearwater
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554881218
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Nuclear Weapons written by John Clearwater and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons." Pierre Trudeau United Nations, 26 May 1978 From 1963 to 1984, US nuclear warheads armed Canadian weapons systems in both Canada and West Germany. It is likely that during the early part of this period, the Canadian military was putting more effort, money, and manpower into the nuclear commitment than any other single activity. This important book is an operational-technical history and exposÈ of this period. Its purpose is to bring together until-recently secret information about the nature of the nuclear arsenal in Canada, and combine it with known information about the systems in the US nuclear arsenal. The work begins with an account of the efforts of the Pearson government to sign the agreement with the US necessary to bring nuclear weapons to Canada. Subsequent chapters provide a detailed discussion of the four nuclear weapons systems deployed by Canada: the BOMARC surface-to-air guided interceptor missile; the Honest John short range battlefield rocket; the Starfighter tactical thermonuclear bomber; the VooDoo-Genie air defence system. Each chapter also includes a section on the accidents and incidents which occurred while the weapons were at Canadian sites. The final chapter covers the ultimately futile efforts of the Maritime Air Command and the Royal Canadian Navy to acquire nuclear weapons. An appendix includes the text of the until-now secret agreements Canada signed with the USA for the provision of nuclear weapons. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams, and supported by extensive transcriptions of original documents, Canadian Nuclear Weapons will be of great value both to scholars and interested laypersons in its presentation of what has been a deeply hidden secret of Canadian political and military history.

Author : Brian Buckley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773568611
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada's Early Nuclear Policy written by Brian Buckley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada's Early Nuclear Policy Brian Buckley weaves information from a number of disciplines to shed new light on Canada's early policies. Filling a longstanding gap in the national story, he explores the country's role in the early post-war period, cautioning against simplistic explanations and pointing to the continuing roles of contingency and personality in decision making. While the threat of nuclear war has receded in recent years, the number of states with nuclear weapons, the number of weapons, and their killing power are all far greater than they were five decades ago. Virtually all the issues that emerged fifty years ago remain on the international agenda and are as relevant today as ever.

Author : Susan Colbourn
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864001
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear North written by Susan Colbourn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of nuclear weapons for their own security? Should Canadian-produced nuclear technologies be exported? What about the impact of atomic research on local communities and the environment? This incisive nuclear history engages with much larger debates about national identity, Canadian foreign policy contradictions during the Cold War, and Canada’s global standing to investigate these critical questions.

Author : Ernie Regehr
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada and the Nuclear Arms Race written by Ernie Regehr and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's most distinguished critics of the nuclear arms race examine this drift to annihilation, show how Canada was contributing to it, and explain the policies that Canada could have adopted to encourage the reversal of the arms race.

Author : Shannon Selin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada as a Nuclear Weapon-free Zone written by Shannon Selin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Levitt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773563377
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957 written by Joseph Levitt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations Joseph Levitt traces the history of these negotiations from the Canadian diplomatic perspective. He analyses the various proposals and documents the reactions of Pearson and his colleagues. Levitt reveals Pearson's own view of the strategic stalemate between the USSR and the United States -- Pearson did not believe that an open and liberal society such as the United States would ever launch an unprovoked offensive on the USSR; he thought instead that the danger of a major military confrontation arose only from the possibility that the Soviet Union might attack. Consequently the main thrust of Canadian diplomatic activity in these negotiations was not prevention of an American arms build-up but support of a strategy which would compel the USSR to accept an agreement that would benefit the Americans militarily or, failing that, to hold the Soviets responsible for the impasse in the talks and thus win the all-important propaganda war.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Publisher : Micromedia, [1998 or 1999]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada and the Nuclear Challenge written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade and published by Micromedia, [1998 or 1999]. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: