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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
We're part of NORAD, if nukes fly towards North America the US nuclear triad would return strikes on our behalf. We never had nukes even during the height of the cold war, I don't think spending money on weapons no one can ever use is worthwhile for us.
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Huh?
We had Nuclear Warheads for our Bomarc missiles at Goose Bay Labrador. Canada had 4 Honest John missile batteries in Europe with 16 nuclear warheads. 108 Genie nuclear rockets for our Voodoo interceptors. As well in Europe as part of NATO, we had 90 nuclear warheads with our CF-104 NATO compliment.
While these weapons were given to Canada under a custodial agreement, the weapons were effectively under Canada's control and mounted on Canadian assets.
Now the question is should Canada get nukes. Nope, first of all, we don't really need a deterrence force, that's what the American's and NATO are for. So if we are attacked by weapons of mass destruction for example. Chemical, biological or Nuclear. The NATO response is a bug, is a nerve agent is a nuke is all a nuke.
For the defense of Canada, its unlikely that we would want to use Nukes in the defense of Canada on our own soil or seas. In terms of NATO, Canada really doesn't have a nuclear platform anyways unless we buy the F-35.
So nope.