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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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I knew we possessed them as part of NORAD but Canada has never been considered a nuclear power. Part of the Arrow cancellation was the decision to get bomarcs instead.
The warheads were never in the sole possession of Canadian personnel. They were the property of the Government of the United States and were always under the direct supervision of a "Custodial Detachment" from the United States Air Force (or Army, in the case of Honest John warheads).
Through 1984, Canada would deploy four American designed nuclear weapons delivery systems accompanied by hundreds of warheads:
56 CIM-10 BOMARC surface-to-air missiles.[20]
4 MGR-1 Honest John rocket systems, each with four rockets and four warheads, for a total of 16 W31 nuclear warheads the Canadian Army deployed in Germany.[20]
108 nuclear W25 Genie rockets carried by 54 CF-101 Voodoos.[20]
estimates of 90 to 210 tactical (20–60 kiloton) nuclear warheads assigned to 6 CF-104 Starfighter squadrons (about 90 aircraft) based with NATO in Europe (there is a lack of open sources detailing exactly how many warheads were deployed).[21][/I]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada...ss_destruction