Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: the Pentagon / nuclear weapons Message-ID: <4939@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:49:49 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4939 Posted: Wed Jan 16 16:49:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:49:49 EST References: <334@utcs.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry