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From: pkern@utcs.UUCP (Paul Kern)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: the Pentagon / nuclear weapons
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 15:32:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 13 15:32:59 1985
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    Just recently a leaked Pentagon document revealed plans to place
American nuclear devices on Canadian bases during times of extreme
international crisis.(Not many, 32, I think) The intended bases were 
CFB Comox on Vancouver Island and another base in Nova Scotia. The 
plan seemed to be that Canadian Coastguard(?) planes, like 
the Aurora, would deliver some of the devices
to their targets (ie. enemy submarines lurking off the two coasts).
Subsequent revelations included the placing of long-range B-52 bombers
on bases around the country. They would be carrying nuclear weapons.
I suppose the idea was to place them closer to the target.
   While I am a rookie politics spectator a long held belief was that Canada
was always, and would remain, free of nuclear weapons (except for the
ones raining around us during a nuclear exchange).
This also seemed to be another example of Canada being taken for
granted as the Minister of Defense, Robert Coates, had not heard of this
plan (or would not admit that he had).

Any comments from the political-minded net users ?

Paul Kern
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