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Canada has thus experimented with such things as weaponized anthrax, botulinum toxin, ricin, rinderpest virus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, plague, Brucellosis and tularemia. CFB Suffield is the leading research centre. Canada says it has destroyed all military stockpiles and no longer conducts toxin warfare research.
This policy of "nuclear opacity" has been interpreted as an attempt to get the benefits of deterrence with a minimal political cost. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Due to a US ban on funding countries that have weapons of mass destruction , Israel would lose around $2 billion a year in military and other aid from the US if it admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts in and involving Canada in chronological order, from the 11th century to the 21st century. It is divided into two main sections. The first section outlines conflicts that happened in what is now Canada before its confederation in 1867 .
[1] [9] A United States Defense Intelligence Agency report from 1999 projected that both Iran and Iraq would join the nuclear club and have 10-20 nuclear weapons in 2020. [10] However, it is worth pointing out that this report was written before the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and before information was released indicating that ...
A frightening moment in the 1950s has mostly been forgotten today — the release of an unloaded nuclear bomb by the Air Force over the Palmetto State. That time the U.S. government accidentally ...
There have also been a number of accidents involving nuclear weapons, such as crashes of nuclear armed aircraft. Despite a reduction in global nuclear tensions and major nuclear arms reductions after the end of the Cold War following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, estimated nuclear warhead stockpiles total roughly 15,000 worldwide ...
The cause of the accident could not be established; the aircraft gave no signals of distress, and was flying on a clear day, but simply went into a steep dive and crashed nose-first, killing four officers and twelve airmen. [9] [10] August 5, 1950 Fairfield-Suisun AFB, California, US Non-nuclear detonation of an atomic bomb