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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
I am so confused....didn't we (the federation known as the U.S.) give them (the federation known as Canada) a bunch of nuclear weapons and stuff to shoot down missles during the cold war. I'm pretty sure that Canada would shoot any missle that was aimed at them, or us if it was over their airspace. I think this agreement is just needless paperwork and a last ditch by the right wing extremists in this country.
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The Bomarc missle was nuclear tipped - it was actually the program that killed the Avro Arrow (big issue up here)... the last warhead was removed in 1997 and taken back to the US for disposal - mind you it was 50s technology so it's not to useful... it was designed to intercept bombers by blowing up close-enough to them with a nuke.
Canadian defense has switched back and forth between adovcating a ground based defense and an air based defense - the current arguement is for developing air based interception missle technology as cheaper and easier to deploy across Canada.