POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nuclear Sharing, Smiling Buddha, Pierre Trudeau
15 Sep 2017
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Canada and nuclear p roliferation: for a long time, canadian governments have expressed support for the stopping and slowing down of nuclear development. Taken steps to protect their knowledge and technology. There has been an effort to ban all nuclear tests. Banning of all enrichment of nuclear weaponry. Trudeau promised to redouble this effort to help promote this. They were in a good position to build their own nuclear weapons during the. Could have been easily been the 2nd or 3rd country to test nuclear weapons however they chose not too: however, canada can be criticized for not living up to their rhetoric. An agreement between the members of the g8 to come up with some money to spend in russia. Would help to both secure radioactive material, technology, weapons and help prevent soviet era scientists from selling their knowledge. Most of the canadian money was spent decommissioning old nuclear powered submarines.
