U.S. Perplexed By Canada On Missile Defence

Toronto Star ^ | February 23, 2005 | Canadian Press

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

54 40 or fight

[BluH2o]

Why Toronto instead of Detroit?

Got me ... probably because Detroit could take a nuke and it would be hard to tell?

[fooman]

hand

[mad_as_he$$]

Excellent!

[Calvin Locke]

... we should ignore it.

Um, let's not be so hasty. Being in the Northeast, can we at least check the weather/fallout patterns first?

[UCANSEE2]

From another poster.

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Here's one I am still laughing about.

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[clearsight]

We already have eyes in the sky over Canada. Forget the ground radar. We have not only satellite but we can see over the horizon for at least 500 miles. We are way more advaced than the general public is made aware of, although the information is out there, one just has to look for it in the right places and be able to read between the lines.

[hosepipe]

[ Canada's apparent decision to stay out of a North American missile-defence system has dumbfounded Americans as an unnecessary giveaway of sovereignty, Washington's envoy to Ottawa Paul Cellucci in Toronto said today(paraphrasing)

"Yeah, but can we televise the nuke as it hits Ottawa or some other city.. and sell advertiseing to nasty capitalist companys with the American beer commercials, of course.?. "

[sanchez810]

Did Frank express himself badly? Perhaps


THis sounds kerryish.

[Fury]

Seems to me that the Canadians got this one. They know that most major Canadian cities lay within 125 miles of the US border. Given the proximity of those cities to US cities any incoming missle would have to be destroyed regardless of Canadian financial participation. They already have a treaty for detection of incoming threats. A detonation in amy major Canadian city would have major impact on adjacent US cities.

Canada has a recent history of opposing various weapons systems on their soil. Most notably, one can refer back to the Bomarc anti-aircraft missle and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker opposing the missles being armed with nuclear warheads. It cost Diefenbaker an election to Lester Pearson who did order the missles armed with nuclear warheads.

A comparison of Soviet targeting data from the cold war reveals that the only nuclear target in Canada was Ottawa. Sure to make Ottawans unhappy to be sure. But in the great scale of disaster that ain't bad.

The Soviets had different targeting scenarios/operating plans based on the threat/attack. I believe it's reasonable to posit that the Soviets had many targets in Canada, again based on the threat/attack and the objectives they hoped to achieve.