Canada S Early Nuclear Policy

Author : Brian Buckley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0773520775

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Canada's Early Nuclear Policy by Brian Buckley Pdf

The advent of nuclear weapons introduced a complex new factor into world politics, drawing a line through history and ensuring that international relations would never be the same. By both accident and design, Canada was a central player in the new nuclear era, as countries grappled with the implications of this revolutionary new development. Canada's decision, unique among pioneer atomic powers, not to acquire a nuclear arsenal has been used to buttress widely differing political agendas, while the factors that shaped the policy-making process have been largely ignored.

Author : Susan Colbourn,Timothy Andrews Sayle
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774864008

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The Nuclear North by Susan Colbourn,Timothy Andrews Sayle Pdf

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 : Carleton University. School of Public Administration,Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,Science Council of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038946625

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Canadian Nuclear Policies by Carleton University. School of Public Administration,Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,Science Council of Canada Pdf

Author : Sean M. Maloney
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612342474

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Learning to Love the Bomb by Sean M. Maloney Pdf

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 : Andrew Paul Burtch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822404

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Give Me Shelter by Andrew Paul Burtch Pdf

What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.

Author : G. Bruce Doern
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0920380468

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Government Intervention in the Canadian Nuclear Industry by G. Bruce Doern Pdf

Author : Robert William Reford,Iain Johnston,Canadian Institute of International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Arms control
ISBN : PSU:000008426246

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The Other Road to Security by Robert William Reford,Iain Johnston,Canadian Institute of International Affairs Pdf

Author : John Clearwater
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781550023299

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U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada by John Clearwater Pdf

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 : Reginald Whitaker,Steve Hewitt
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121541945

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Canada and the Cold War by Reginald Whitaker,Steve Hewitt Pdf

Canada and the Cold War is a fascinating historical overview of a key period in Canadian history. The focus is on how Canada and Canadians responded to the Soviet Union -- and to America's demands on its northern neighbour.

Author : Andrew Richter
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840422

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Avoiding Armageddon by Andrew Richter Pdf

Drawing on previously classified government records, Richter reveals that Canadian defence officials independently came to strategic understandings of the most critical issues of the nuclear age regarding the use of force in resolving disputes. Canadian appreciation of deterrence, arms control, and strategic stability differed conceptually from the US models. Similarly, Canadian thinking on the controversial issues of air defence and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons was primarily influenced by decidedly Canadian interests. This book illustrates Canada's considerable latitude for independent defence thinking while providing key historical information that helps make sense of the contemporary Canadian defence debate.

Author : Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773516018

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Canada Enters the Nuclear Age by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Pdf

The nuclear energy company has overseen the production of its own history, focusing on programs at its laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario, and Whiteshell, Manitoba between 1943 and 1985. The 16 scientists who wrote the narrative discuss the organization and operations of the laboratories, nuclear safety and radiation protection, radioisotopes, basic research, developing the CANDU reactor, managing the radioactive wastes, business development, and revenue generation. Canadian card order number: C97-900188-9. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Harsh V. Pant,Yogesh Joshi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199093830

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Indian Nuclear Policy by Harsh V. Pant,Yogesh Joshi Pdf

India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking. This book provides a historical narrative of the evolution of India’s nuclear policy since 1947, as the country continues its pursuit for complete integration into the global nuclear order. Situating India’s nuclear behaviour in this context, the book explains how India’s engagement with the atom is unique in international nuclear history and politics. Aided by declassified archival documents and oral history interviews, it focuses on how status, security, domestic politics, and the role of individuals have played a key role in defining and shaping India’s nuclear trajectory, policy choices, and their consequences.

Author : Allan S. Krass,Peter Boskma,Boelie Elzen,Wim A. Smit,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000200546

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Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation by Allan S. Krass,Peter Boskma,Boelie Elzen,Wim A. Smit,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Author : Tad Daley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813549491

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Apocalypse Never by Tad Daley Pdf

Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. On the wings of a brand new era in American history, Apocalypse Never makes the case that a comprehensive nuclear policy agenda that fully integrates nonproliferation with disarmament, can both eliminate immediate nuclear dangers and set us irreversibly on the road to abolition. In jargon-free language, Daley explores the possible verification measures, enforcement mechanisms, and governance structures of a nuclear weapon-free world.

Author : Isabel Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825658

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Unlikely Diplomats by Isabel Campbell Pdf

In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented personnel policies that permanently changed the distribution of the defence budget and the character of the Canadian Army. This original account of the evolution of the Canadian Army from a small training cadre to a truly national force offers a new perspective on military policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era.