In the hypothetical situation that Canada decided it wanted to pursue its own nuclear program and eventually possess said weapon, how would the rest of the world react? Please note i am not in any way implicating or endorsing Canada using said weapons.
In the hypothetical situation that Canada decided it wanted to pursue its own nuclear program and eventually possess said weapon, how would the rest of the world react? Please note i am not in any way implicating or endorsing Canada using said weapons.
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For this scenario i was thinking of a contemporary time frame.You mean in the initial Post WWII era? 1945-1960.
Or contemporary?
Doesn't Canada already have nuclear weapons?
Through 1984, Canada would deploy four American designed nuclear weapons delivery systems accompanied by hundreds of warheads:
But there is still talk of denuclearize, but obligations by NATO keeps them.
- 5600 CIM-10 BOMARC surface-to-air missiles.
- 430 MGR-1 Honest John rocket systems armed with a total of 16 W31 nuclear warheads the Canadian Army deployed in Germany.
- 1080 nuclear W25 Genie rockets carried by 54 CF-101 Voodoos.
- 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
- In total, there were between 250 and 450 nuclear warheads on Canadian bases between 1963 and 1972. There were at most 108 Genie missiles armed with 1.5 kiloton W25 warheads present from 1963 to 1984
A scenario like this would of required a more assertive Canadian foreign and military policy after WW2 at least.
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At the end of WW2 Canada had the 3rd largest navy but like at the end of WW1 it scaled back its armed forces to the bone.
So essentially Canada renounces the NPT and constructs their own nuclear weapons (and presumably some additional delivery systems ?)For this scenario i was thinking of a contemporary time frame.
Could have collaborated with either us or uk depending on when it start. But don't see it being more than symbolic. (Ie not level or us/urss or even uk/france/china but a lower level like pakistan/israel/south africa for the number or warhead. )So essentially Canada renounces the NPT and constructs their own nuclear weapons (and presumably some additional delivery systems ?)
I suspect how the world would react would really depend on why the Canadians decided to do this.
From a more pragmatic perspective so long as the U.S. is at least ambivalent about this matter I doubt the rest of the world will do much
Edit to add / clarify:
IMHO I doubt the rest of the world would do much of any real consequence to Canada unless the U.S. was actively opposed to the Canadian plans or actions.
Could have collaborated with either us or uk depending on when it start. But don't see it being more than symbolic. (Ie not level or us/urss or even uk/france/china but a lower level like pakistan/israel/south africa for the number or warhead. )
So essentially Canada renounces the NPT and constructs their own nuclear weapons (and presumably some additional delivery systems ?)