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Almost 900 Canadian military personnel were exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War as well as two serious reactor accidents in Chalk River, Ont. during the 1950s, according to a report produced for Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor. The January 2007 report, obtained by the Ottawa Citizen, is the first time the full extent of the involvement of Canadian military personnel in U.S. and British nuclear weapons testing has been documented.
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...Ridding the world of those often hidden weapons will help to save the lives of tens of thousands o... to address the need for international nuclear disarmament. (37) U.S. officials acknowledged thes... successes on chemical weapons and nuclear testing." Hubert, The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humani...
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... treaty signatory, has nuclear weapons, and until recently was a nuclear pariah. It is ex... weapons program, but future nuclear testing by India would, as per US law, lead to the US stop...
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..., others are specific to nuclear weapons," the report said. Among these were indications IIran has conducted high explosives testing and detonator development to set off a nuclear cha...
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Canadian governments periodically find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place on continental defence issues, facing pressure from the United States to support a controversial new initiative, and the expectation of substantial opposition at home. The conventional wisdom is that the decision to tilt one way or the other is ultimately a matter of political leadership. Bold and effective prime ministers are quick to say "yes" or "no" as they see fit. Weak prime ministers try to put off a decision, and ultimately cave in to public pressure in a way that aggravates the Americans. But a closer look suggests that the crucial factor might be the "solidity" of the prime minister's political footing. Delay, dissembling, and domestic grandstanding may be perfectly rational strategies for ...
... in his 1983 decision to autiiorize the testing of US cruise missiles over northern Alberta. If, h...'s handling of the question of the nuclear arming of Bomarc ground-to-air missiles in 1963. D... and growing concerns about the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles by so-c...
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Regimes to control weapons of mass destruction have been impressively effecti... then again in i998, made such a decision, testing a nuclear device and announcing its intention to b...
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... was that the nexus of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction was the most important problem... Test-Ban Treaty, while maintaining its testing moratorium. . In the UN context, not just the US b...
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...), Ottawa resident Sandra Ridley pits the nuclear family against the nuclear age. Her debut makes th... her elder sister in 1958 and the nuclear weapons testing in the U.S. around that time. Ridley's fam...
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... poisons were akin to the by-products of nuclear weapons testing: both demonstrated our novel capac...
