Very Close Together: Balancing Canadian Interests on Atomic Energy Control, 1945-46 / Katie Davis -- "We Do Not Wish to Be Obstructionist": How Canada Took and Kept a Seat on NATO's Nuclear Planning Group / Timothy Andrews Sayle -- Howard Green, Disarmament, and Canadian-American Defence Relations, 1959-63: "A Queer, Confused World" / Michael D. Stevenson -- Neutralism, Nationalism, and Nukes, Oh My! Revisiting Peacemaker or Powdermonkey? and Canadian Strategy in the Nuclear Age / / Asa McKercher -- The Road to Scarborough: Lester Pearson and Nuclear Weapons, 1954-63 / Jack Cunningham -- Who's Going to Invade Arctic Canada, Anyway? Debating the Acquisition of the Nuclear Submarine in the 1980s / Susan Colbourn -- "Baptism by Fire": Canadian Soldiers and Radiation Exposure at Nevada and Maralinga / Matthew S. Wiseman -- A Northern Nuclear Nightmare? Operation Morning Light and the Recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978 / Ryan Dean and P. Whitney Lackenbauer -- Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards: The Transformation of Canadian Nuclear Policy toward Argentina and South Korea after India's 1974 Nuclear Test /Se Young Jang -- Conclusion: Nuclear victorians / Timothy Andrews Sayle.
Summary:
"By virtue of resources and technologies Canada is a nuclear nation. But the country does not have the ultimate symbol of nuclear power--a weapons program of its own. Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country's role in a nuclear world. The Nuclear North investigates critical questions in these ongoing debates. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of using nuclear weapons for their own security? Should Canadian-produced nuclear technologies be sold on the export market to potential proliferators? Does the country's championing of arms control and disarmament on the global stage matter? What about the domestic costs of nuclear technologies and atomic research, including their impact on local communities and the environment? The contributors to this important collection explore Canada's relationship with nuclear weapons and other nuclear technologies over the course of the Cold War and beyond. They consider how the atomic age has shaped Canadian policies at home and abroad, and in doing so engage in much larger debates about national identity, contradictions at the heart of the country's Cold War foreign policy, and Canada's place in the international order. "-- Provided by publisher.
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