In this second volume of his nuclear weapon series, John Clearwater
continues to investigate the presence of American nuclear weapons in
Canada. In Canadian Nuclear Weapons, Clearwater told the story of
nuclear weapons that were in the hands of Canadian forces during the
Cold War. In U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada, he goes further, looking
at nuclear weapons held by American forces on Canadian soil. His purpose
is to bring together until-recently secret information about the nature
of the nuclear weapons stored, stationed, or lost in Canada by the
United States Air Force and the United States Navy, and combines it with
known information about the systems in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The history of the atomic bomb in Canada goes back to the first years
immediately after World War II when the U.S. government, under the
prodding of the newly created Strategic Air command, began a slow and
steady process of talks designed to allow Goose Bay to be groomed for
the eventual acceptance of nuclear weapons.
Crashes and nuclear accidents. Conspiracies and cover-ups. Clearwater
examines them all in great detail. The reader will see for the first
time the minutes of Cabinet and the Cabinet Defence Committee meetings
in which the storage of nuclear weapons are discussed. Also printed here
for the first time are the agreements between Canada and the U.S. for
the storage of nuclear weapons. Many of the documents presented here
were until recently classified as secret, and many were top secret.
