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AVOIDING<br />

ARMAGEDDON<br />

Canadian Military<br />

Strategy<br />

and Nuclear Weapons,<br />

1950-63<br />

Andrew Richter<br />

Avoiding Armageddon<br />

Canadian Military Strategy and<br />

Nuclear Weapons, 1950-63<br />

Andrew Richter<br />

The advent of nuclear weapons in the 1940s brought<br />

enormous changes to doctrines regarding the use of<br />

force in resolving disputes. American strategists<br />

have been widely credited with most of these; Canadians,<br />

most have assumed, did not conduct their<br />

own strategic analysis. Avoiding Armageddon soundly<br />

debunks this notion.<br />

Andrew Richter draws on previously classified government<br />

records and reveals that Canadian defence<br />

officials did come to independent strategic understandings<br />

of the most critical issues of the nuclear<br />

age. Canadian appreciation of deterrence, arms control,<br />

and strategic stability differed conceptually from<br />

the US models. Similarly, Canadian thinking on the<br />

controversial issues of air defence and the domestic<br />

acquisition of nuclear weapons was primarily influenced<br />

by decidedly Canadian interests.<br />

Avoiding Armageddon is a work with far-reaching<br />

implications. It illustrates Canada’s considerable latitude<br />

for independent defence thinking while<br />

providing key historical information that helps make<br />

sense of the contemporary Canadian defence<br />

debate.<br />

Andrew Richter is Assistant Professor in the Department<br />

of Political Science, University of Windsor.<br />

STUDIES IN CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY SERIES<br />

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CANADIAN<br />

WAR MUSEUM<br />

June<br />

256 pages, 6 x 9”<br />

ISSN 1499-6251<br />

ISBN 0-7748-0888-8<br />

hardcover, $85.00<br />

20<br />

ORDER FROM RAINCOAST TEL: 1 800 663 5714

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