Canada in NORAD, 1957-2007: A History (Queen’s Policy Studies)

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At its creation in 1957, NORAD was once given operational keep watch over over the vast U.S. and Canadian continental air defence forces. Canada in NORAD, 1957-2007 follows Canadian involvement in the binational command as the threat shifted from Soviet bombers to ballistic missiles to terrorist-highjacked aircraft. It focuses particularly on what continental air defence has meant for the Canadian air force and for Canadian airspace and territory. It also looks on the differing Canadian and U.S. conceptions of NORAD’s role in warning of nuclear attack, and the implications of Ottawa’s decisions not to take part in missile defence. keep watch over over Canadian and U.S. forces, that have been equipped for years with nuclear air defence weapons, in addition to the command’s affect on Canadian sovereignty. After all, it outlines what Ottawa sought to succeed in in the NORAD agreements with Washington, from the first one in 1958 to the most up to date.

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