Canada Can't Avoid the Global Nuclear Crisis

Published March 22, 2006

The new Canadian government headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which came to office on a domestic agenda, is quickly finding itself immersed in international issues. The prime minister's visit to Afghanistan shows his enlarged focus. Now the issue of nuclear weapons looms because the world faces, as a United Nations high-level panel recently put it, a "cascade" of proliferation of nuclear weapons. Canada, which...