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Originally Posted by Church
They tried this years back as well just after the cold war. The US was still paranoid about Russia launching missles from the arctic, or traveling over the arctic to get to the US since the boarder would be the least patrolled area. Well the US's plan was to shoot the missles/planes down. That's fine, but the debris would have fallen on the busiest parts of Canada.
I completely support my government in this decision.
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Let me understand what you're saying: That you'd rather have a plane successfully drop whatever type of bomb (from convential to nuclear) for sure into whatever city or target in the US, then have the debris from that wreckage fall into Canada? Be aware that a nuclear warhead wouldn't even detonate if it just fell; granted, it would give off radiation, but that's a lot less damage then a detonation.
It's a sketchy issue, I'll agree, and if Canada doesn't want the US screwing with their airspace, I think we should respect that, at least during testing. However, if it comes time for the missiles to start flying (and I hope that that time never, ever comes), I hope that Canada might let us defend over thier airspace.
Personally, though, I'm against the whole thing, unless we can, for sure, prevent every missile from coming through. And I realize that's the goal, but progress really isn't being made in that direction. So I guess it's more like "I'm not sure where I stand".