Canada and ballistic missile defence: dilemmas and options.

From: Ploughshares Monitor | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Should Canada participate in a North American missile defence system? Recent US steps toward the deployment of such a system have placed the issue on Canada's agenda, but the debate needs to be framed more broadly.

So far, the ballistic missile defence (BMD) debate in Canada has largely avoided the question of what Canada should do about the ballistic missile threat. Instead, the issue has been framed entirely as a question of what Canada should do about what the Americans do about the particular ballistic missile threat they have identified as the problem. Of course, this ...

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