Canada remains anti-nuke, but its potential path to the bomb is getting shorter

[Jotunn]

Canada remains anti-nuke, but its potential path to the bomb is getting shorter

For decades, Canada's official policy on nuclear weapons has been that they shouldn't exist, and there is no sign that principle is about to be abandoned.

But for reasons of history and geography, Canada is also one of the world's non-nuclear countries with the easiest technical path to a nuclear weapon. And because of the particular design of its CANDU reactors, it would also be one of the countries best-positioned to produce weapons-grade fissile material without tripping international alerts — although such a move would carry huge geopolitical risks.

Technological changes that are expected in the coming years will likely make Canada even more of a threshold nuclear arms power than it is today, whether it chooses to cross that threshold or not.

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[Phoenix]

Since the native countries of the majority of Canada's population by century's end, India and Pakistan, both have nukes, it's reasonable to expect that their "colony" will as well.