https://globalsecurityreview.com/time-to-proliferate-nuclear-weapons-or-not/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Fri, 02 May 2025 01:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://globalsecurityreview.com/time-to-proliferate-nuclear-weapons-or-not/#comment-1851 Fri, 02 May 2025 01:39:55 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=30629#comment-1851 Shawn, hi, agree. I’ve just finished reading John Clearwater “Canadian Nuclear Weapons” Dundurn Press, 1998. The scale of the effort across 1963-84 was interesting as was the various attempts by Canadian governments to downplay the issue. Not hidden but not actively marketed either. I’m always amused by the idea of Genie but on reflection very small nuclear weapons may yet make a return.

]]> https://globalsecurityreview.com/time-to-proliferate-nuclear-weapons-or-not/#comment-1841 Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:41:01 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=30629#comment-1841 The second option sounds a lot like the arrangement Canada had with the US during the Cold War in the 1960’s. Canada did not acquire nuclear weapons but did acquire the delivery systems, i.e. BOMARC, F-101 with Genie, Honest John rockets, etc.
The US agreed to supply nuclear warheads for these weapon systems. The warheads were strictly under the control of the US but stored on Canadian bases. They would be made available for use by the Canadian military after permission was granted by the US government through the same chain of command as for other US nuclear weapons. At one point, close to 300 nuclear warheads were available for possible use by the Canadian military.

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