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Article: Canada's nuclear schizophrenia.
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
- Author:
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Despite grumbling, Canada seems likely to go along with U.S. missile defense plans, just as it is currently cooperating with the United States by testing the use of a small amount of U.S. nuclear weapons plutonium in a government-owned power reactor. In both cases, Canada will continue its long tradition of nuclear cooperation with the United States--even as it strides the international stage as a leading proponent of nuclear disarmament.
Canada, after all, was on the ground floor in the development of the first atomic bomb, even though it was decidedly a junior partner to the British and the Americans. There were two important reasons for Canada's inclusion in ...