The Nuclear North

Foreword / Robert Bothwell

Introduction: Nuclear if Necessary, but Not Necessarily Nuclear / Susan Colbourn

Part 1: A Seat at the Table

1 Very Close Together: Balancing Canadian Interests on Atomic Energy Control, 1945–46 / Katie Davis

2 “We Do Not Wish to Be Obstructionist”: How Canada Took and Kept a Seat on NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group / Timothy Andrews Sayle

Part 2: Political Powderkegs

3 Howard Green, Disarmament, and Canadian-American Defence Relations, 1959–63: "A Queer, Confused World" / Michael D. Stevenson

4 Neutralism, Nationalism, and Nukes, Oh My! Revisiting Peacemaker or Powder-Monkey and Canadian Strategy in the Nuclear Age / Asa McKercher

5 The Road to Scarborough: Lester Pearson and Nuclear Weapons, 1954–63 / Jack Cunningham

Part 3: In Search of Nuclear Tasks at Home and Abroad

6 Who’s Going to Invade Arctic Canada, Anyway? Debating the Acquisition of the Nuclear Submarine in the 1980s / Susan Colbourn

7 “Baptism by Fire”: Canadian Soldiers and Radiation Exposure at Nevada and Maralinga / Matthew S. Wiseman

Part 4: Importing by Accident, Exporting by Design

8 A Northern Nuclear Nightmare? Operation Morning Light and the Recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978 / Ryan Dean and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

9 Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards: The Transformation of Canada’s Nuclear Policy towards Argentina and South Korea after India's 1974 Nuclear Test / Se Young Jang

Conclusion: Nuclear Victorians / Timothy Andrews Sayle

Index