Why should we have nukes? The fewer countries that have nukes, the less likely that nuclear war would occur.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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Darlington is a CANDU reactor which can not produce weapons grade uranium. Everything can be a conspiracy when you don’t know how things work.
Any reactor can keep reacting uranium until it becomes plutonium. The weapons are plutonium.
We signed treaties that prevent reacting uranium plutonium to high levels. CANDU reactors certainly produce plutonium, and can produce very pure plutonium.
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Soon. Less than 2 years. Even many Germans who were anti-nukes are reconsidering.
It's not just because of the USA, but also because of russia. All trust and all hope in nuclear disarmament is gone. Looks like the risk of all out nuclear war is not as frightening as some bully nation randomly surpise invading. Shame.
Not before 2050. The biggest hurdle isn't the nuclear science, we can handle that fairly quickly. The problem is delivery systems. We agreed to a treaty that prevents us from building missiles big enough, fast enough, and long enough range to make nukes feasible. It was the trade off for being able to advance our nuclear research capabilities. Right now, I think there's a lot of countries rethinking their stance on that treaty, but actually developing those platforms is going to take time, even if that treaty goes away.
The warhead is the easy part.
Never. If canada had nuclear weapons it would become very hard for the US to colonize the country when the time comes. So they will never allow it
Ukraine has no nukes and it hasn't been a cake walk for Russia.
Russia hasnt used nuclear weapons against ukraine afaik. The US on the other hand is the only country that used it against others, as would be the case against canada if it came to this. So yourre comparing apples to oranges
Would trigger automatic war with the US. We used to have them as a proxy of the US but as our historical enemy they couldn't trust us even holding them as their colony.
As part of NORAD at the height of the cold war we could have technically had control of some. It's all been moved to Alaska.
The US will never allow nuclear bombs that close to them. See the Cuban missile crisis. They would invade Canada or Mexico if they even tried.
It would put Trump in place though. He's bitching about Canada always taking advantage of the US military. If Canada says "fine, we bought new tanks, built up our army, and oh yeah, we're making nukes so we don't need to borrow yours" there isn't much he could say politically.
Of course Trump is huge fucking idiot and flips his script depending on how much shit is in his diaper. He has zero consistency so there is no reason to try and appease him. He could decide to attack Canada because of nukes or because we didn't name a bridge after him.
I'd love to suddenly have nukes and protect ourselves from the Americans but i don't think there is a feasible way to do it without the Americans knowing. I think the only way would be an agreement where France would station nukes in Canada until we can make our own, but I'd be flabbergasted if France actually had the guts to do that. It wouldn't be a violation of NATO but it could certainly create some kind of Cuban missile crisis between France and the US and Germany would convulse and wage an economic war against France, potentially threatening the existence of the EU as a whole.
How would any number of nukes protect Canada from a country with over 5,000 of them.
The idea of CAF spending for actual defense of Canada is delusional and naive. CAF spending is about bribery to US industry.
It doesn't matter how many nukes the US has. If we have the capability to turn NYC into the surface of the moon, the US wouldn't risk it.
How would any number of nukes protect Canada from a country with over 5,000 of them.
Just the threat of a few nukes taking out DC or some other major city is usually enough of a deterrent to not start shit. Yeah, they could litter Canada with ground zero zones, but that's not the point.
Trump is a different animal though. Most humans care about other people so the threat of a country nuking New York or DC is a pretty good reason to make political arrangements this doesn't happen. Trump hates humanity and only cares about himself. I honestly think he would be in heaven if a nuke took out LA or Portland.