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At 10pm on New Year's Eve, 1963, a US Air Force C-124 Globmaster Transport aircraft

touched down on a runway in North Bay, Ontario.

Under the cover of darkness, seven large metal canisters were unloaded from the aircraft

and placed aboard a truck marked explosives.

This truck then spirited the canisters through the security gauge of the nearby Royal Canadian Air Force Base, where they were securely locked away in a thick concrete bunker.

Inside were W40 atomic warheads, each with the yield of 10 kilotons of TNT, the first nuclear

weapons to be delivered to Canada. But wait, I hear you say, Canada, the lands of hockey, maple syrup, and Mounties with

the silly red uniforms, surely they can't have been a nuclear power. Well, yes, they were. Kinder.

Between 1963 and 1984, the Canadian Armed Forces has deployed an estimated 450 nuclear

weapons of six different types as part of their commitment to NATO and

NORAD. However, these weapons were neither owned nor fully controlled by the Canadian government,

officially remaining in US custody until needed in time of war. Nor was their presence

particularly popular with the Canadian people, ultimately leading Canada to become the first

nuclear-armed nations voluntarily give up its weapons.

This is the surprising and forgotten story of how Canada learned to stop worrying and loved the bomb.

From the very beginning, the True North Strong and Free has played a major role in the nuclear age,

with, for instance, much of the uranium used in the first atomic bombs being mined in northern

Canada. Several Canadian scientists also played key roles in the Manhattan Project, including

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