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The Smiling Buddha Blast And Canada's CANDU Snafu

Posted on Wednesday, March 01 at 10:38 by Spud
On May 11 and 13, 1998, India carried out five nuclear tests at Pokhran. Two weeks later, on May 28 and 29, 1998, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that Pakistan had conducted five nuclear tests at its base in Baluchistan and had "settled the score with India." The people of the world can thank Canada for this most dangerous nuclear brinkmanship parlay ever. With its monumental stupidity exposed for all the world to see, after India's 1974 blast Canada slunk out of the India CANDU project leaving Indian scientists to handle, maintain, repair and operate the nukes on their own. Canada abruptly stopped supplying uranium to Pakistan in 1976, and then slunk out of its Pakistan project. If India and Pakistan ever nuke it out, or if ever those CANDUs should snafu, Canada will have an horrific culpability on its hands. http://www.counterpunch.org/lee02272006.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 1, 2006]

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  1. by MallIus
    Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:02 pm
    It seems to me that having nukes deters attacks from other nuclear countries and the only country to use nukes on another was the U.S. Maybe nuclear proliferation will hold the world on the brink of disaster. If Japan had nukes perhaps the children of Hiroshima would have agreed with me.

  2. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:51 pm
    It should also be noted (although the article doesn't) that newer CANDU reactors can use unenriched uranium, eliminating the need for enrichment facilities (thereby spotting military uses).

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    "I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

  3. by Marcarc
    Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:15 pm
    Keep in mind that it wasn't just materials that were supplied. Virtually anybody can get material for 'dirty bombs', all you have to do is open your doors for hazardous waste from other countries (as Canada has done) and just start stockpiling. More importantly it was Canadian ENGINEERS who worked and trained indian engineers. It is expertise that makes all the difference here. What people don't even talk about, but which is far scarier, is countries race to the stars. A country need only start a satellite or space program to be far more dangerous as it is rocket science and delivery systems which is the real problem. Whether you fill up a rocket with depleted uranium , small pox, tuberculosis, or just good old fashioned TNT is what is really threatening. If rocket science gets around then watch out. A nuclear bomb isn't very scary half a world away if they've got no way to get it to you.

  4. by Perturbed
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:47 am
    Yes Marcarc and in the future conventional weapons will liekly be even worse than nuclear weapons are now.

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    "A Liberal is someone who refuses to take his own side in a fight".

    -Robert Frost

  5. by Perturbed
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:48 am
    While is why Canada is now back to trying to sell India more CANDUs....roll

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    "A Liberal is someone who refuses to take his own side in a fight".

    -Robert Frost

  6. by avatar Spud
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:23 am
    Sell more?Got more info on that Perturbed?

  7. by Perturbed
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:45 am
    This was written about by Walter Stweart in Maclean's in the 1970s....Under Comrade Trudeau the Canadian government adopted the idea of humanitarianism towards "underdeveloped" nations. It also didn't help that Trudeau was a cultural communist.

    This is quite typical of the western pattern--enrich non-European competitors that hate you with technology, aid and other economic benefits.

    Russia gave their "Communist allies" the Chinese the nuclear bomb--now China is Russia's biggest threat.

    To be fair, India and Pakistan are more likely going to attack each other than anyone else. They are a big threat to China though so the Chinese were likely ticked at their otherwise huge buddy Trudeau.

    Arming all countries is in the spirit of the "universalism" of communism--if we're all equal we'll never fight. RIGHT.

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    "A Liberal is someone who refuses to take his own side in a fight".

    -Robert Frost



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