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  • Avid AmoebaOP
    52·
    10 hours ago

    I recently learned we don’t have any nuclear weapons. I was shocked. I was also shocked that I didn’t know that. 🥹

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      6 hours ago

      Fun fact, Canada has had the capability of deploying nuclear weapons, but never owned them or kept them on Canadian soil.

      During the cold war the Voodoo interceptor was able to deploy dumbfire tactical nuclear rockets to intercept incoming Russian bombers over the Arctic. But the Canadian government insisted that no nuclear weapons existed on Canadian soil. This was true, but only by an extreme technicality; parts of the airbases were ceded to the US, who also provided the nukes. They were only ever stored in the parts of the bases that were “US territory”.

      • kent_ehEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        But the Canadian government insisted that no nuclear weapons existed on Canadian soil. This

        So the sign at the outskirts declaring Regina to be a “nuclear weapons free zone”, while technically, is more than a bit disingenuous?

      • ElectricMoose@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        This is fascinating! I couldn’t find much info on that and actually, what I found implies that there were some on Canadian bases not just in Canada, but around the world. That is, from if old letters from the Diefenbaker Center are representative of history.

    • EmoPolarbearEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I thought we had a few that were in a state of disassembly that technically qualified for the purposes of international treaties as not existing.