Canada is in “the American security perimeter” with Norad for the aerospace defense of North America. What is less known is that it is also integrated into “Northern Command” which allows the American armed forces to intervene here for “internal security missions”.
Created by the Pentagon in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attack, Northern Command has an area of responsibility that encompasses Canada, Mexico and the North American coastline out to approximately 500 nautical miles.
It is a US military command. Neither Canada nor Mexico have officially agreed to this assumption of responsibility for the defense of North America. Moreover, unlike the “North American Aerospace Defense Command” (Norad), the NORTHCOM staff does not include any Canadian general.
However, the responsibilities it assigns to itself encroach on Canadian and Mexican sovereignty: NORTHCOM plans, organizes and executes internal defense missions, support to civil authorities which include in particular “the management of the consequences of a terrorist event using a weapon of mass destruction.
In December 2002, Jean Chrétien signed a “program of assistance to civil authorities” with the United States, which provides for the conditions for the deployment of American troops in Canada.
US “A” bombs in Greenland
Trump covets Canada and – militarily if necessary – Greenland. The Americans have already almost been the cause of a nuclear disaster there… like in Quebec.
In January 1968, an American B-52 with four thermonuclear bombs caught fire over Greenland and crashed, dispersing several kilograms of radioactive plutonium, but not resulting in a nuclear explosion.
The bomber took off from the Plattsburgh base near the Canadian border, just south of Montreal. The fire could have started while it was flying over Quebec for hours. Nuclear bombers from the Strategic Air Command were based there from 1955 to 1995.
Nuclear incident in Quebec
On November 10, 1950, villagers from Saint-André-de-Kamouraska observed a dazzling flash in the middle of the river. In the following days, Ottawa issued a press release stating that an American plane had suffered damage over the St. Lawrence while flying towards the United States.
In June 1950, at the start of the Korean War, Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent authorized the deployment of B-50 nuclear bombers to Goose Bay, Labrador, in order to bring them closer to their targets in northern Russia.
While returning to the United States, one of the planes had engine problems. He is armed with a Fat Man bomb, like the one that pulverized Nagasaki in 1945. As a precaution, the captain drops the bomb into the river without its nuclear charge.
US nuclear weapons have also been deployed here in Quebec. Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson accepted the presence of Bomarc nuclear missiles at La Macaza, near Mont-Tremblant. American Genie nuclear missiles also equipped CF-101 interceptors based at Bagotville in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Val-d’Or. Only American soldiers on site could arm them.
