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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Genie AIR-2A
- Message-ID: <By0tKE.8zF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
- References: <Bxx23D.MrA@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:26:38 GMT
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- From henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- >From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- >Carrried by F-86J, F-101B, F-106 and CF-101B (hang on - isn't that
- >Canadian??)
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- Correct; Canadian fighters carried Genie for a while, as part of NORAD.
- Canada also had nuclear-armed Bomarc heavy SAMs, and free-fall nuclear
- bombs for CF-104 strike aircraft in Europe.
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- In all cases, the nuclear warheads were US-owned and under US control
- until released for combat. This sort of setup wasn't restricted to
- Canada; the Luftwaffe likewise is set up to fly with US nuclear weapons.
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- This was never especially popular in Canada. The relevant weapons
- systems have all been phased out in the Canadian Armed Forces, and I
- don't believe any of them have been replaced.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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