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The Ark Two Shelter is a nuclear fallout shelter built by Bruce Beach (14 April 1934 – 10 May 2021) [1] [2] in the village of Horning's Mills (north of Toronto, Ontario). [3] The shelter first became habitable in 1980 and has been continuously expanded and improved since then. [ 4 ]
A stone tablet which contained the record of his presence was lost after the demolition. The shrine was rebuilt in 1995. [51] During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, many artifacts, monuments, and buildings belonging to the Four Olds were attacked and destroyed, including: White Horse Temple in Luoyang, the oldest Buddhist temple ...
Conference room at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Teletype terminals at CEGHQ, former CFS Carp. Organigramme. Emergency Government Headquarters is the name given for a system of nuclear fallout shelters built by the Government of Canada in the 1950s and 1960s as part of continuity of government planning at the height of the Cold War.
CF-104 Starfighter; Warhead: B57 bomb 5-20 kilotons; B28 bomb 70-350 kt; B43 bomb 1 Mt Voodoo weapons test; Combat Warhead: W25 1.5 kilotons Goose Air Base in Labrador was the site of the first US nuclear weapons in Canada, when in 1950 the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command stationed 11 model 1561 Fat Man and Mark 4 atomic bombs at ...
Sometime after midnight on 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, United States Air Force Serial Number 44-92075 assigned to the US 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb. [1] This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in ...
The 1950 Rivière-du-Loup B-50 nuclear weapon loss incident refers to loss of a nuclear weapon near Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, during the fall of 1950. The bomb was released due to engine troubles, and then was destroyed in a non-nuclear detonation before it hit the ground.
The blast tunnel entrance. The doors to the actual bunker are perpendicular to this tunnel which reduces the effects of a nuclear shock wave. In 1958, at the height of the Cold War and the infancy of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threat, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker authorized the creation of close to 50 Emergency Government Headquarters (nicknamed "Diefenbunkers" by ...
On 10 September 1939, Canada entered the World War II, declaring war on Germany. [1] Because of its distance from the war theatre in Europe, Canada was an ideal location for producing munitions for the Allied forces. [2] The Government of Canada planned to build the largest shell-filling and assembly plant in the British Commonwealth.