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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: the Pentagon / nuclear weapons
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:49:49 EST
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I may be wrong about this, but my impression is that there have long
been agreements with the US about use of Canadian bases for nuclear
forces in *wartime*.  Since the departure of the Bomarcs and the Genie
missiles that armed the Voodoos, we haven't actually had any nuclear
weapons in our "own" inventory.  ("Own" in quotes because the nuclear
weapons in question were always under US control anyway.)  Peacetime
deployment is a different question, though, and I'm a bit surprised to
hear serious plans for that.  However, I believe people who moan about
the US "taking us for granted" are barking up the wrong tree; this
sort of thing is normally done only with the host country's approval.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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