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Article: Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War.(Book review)
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- Air Power History
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- June 22, 2009
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Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War. By Sean M. Maloney. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxvi, 472. $29.95 ISBN: 1-57488-616-0
This is history at its best. Leaving no archival and other primary sources unturned, Maloney has written the new reference standard on Canada's national security policy for the period 1948-1968, which coincides with the peak of Canada's influence in the world. In telling the story of Canada's nuclear strategy, he convincingly shows that Canada has not always been irrelevant or simply a neutral peacemaker when it came ...