Nuclear Exports and World Politics pp 79-97 | Cite as
Canada and the Quest for International Nuclear Security
Abstract
India’s detonation of a nuclear explosive device in May 1974 created shock waves that were felt through the world’s nuclear community. One place where the shock waves registered a particularly strong effect was in Canada, the source of the technology which India had used to develop the explosive. Canadian nuclear policies underwent a series of changes throughout the remainder of the decade, reverberating to the diminishing echoes of India’s explosion. In the eyes of many Canadians, existing policy had been shown to be inadequate. This led to a determined search for new ways to prevent, or at least delay, future nuclear proliferation. Canadian nuclear policy had placed great emphasis on the need to prevent nuclear proliferation; but the Indian explosion upset earler assumptions about the security of existing nonproliferation efforts.
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