GEOG 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Manhattan Project, Mutual Assured Destruction, Middle Power
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It became a forgotten frontier, with no more need for fur trade and whale oil. Non-aboriginal settlement is relatively recent in the territorial north. Post ww2 era: brought strategic significance as tensions between u. s. and soviet union arose during cold war distance early warning line. Missile power was sent from the russians across the north pole as it was faster and u. s. fought back --> canada is sandwiched between two superpowers that hold lots of nuclear weapons. Fuchs: a mathematician from germany who took part in the manhattan project. Is a socialist; doesn"t want 1 single country to have a bomb. He starts shipping off every single secret to the soviets. Results in proliferation and the soviet union devising in 1949-1950. Struggles over our arctic sovereignty in canada --> everyone was trying to claim north pole as their territory (canada treated as a country that didn"t do anything)
