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Paper explains the controversial U.S. ballistic missile defense scheme in which Canada plays a comparatively small role despite ample criticism. Discussion of defense and security policy choices according to complex neo-realist rationale warranted post-9/11. Exposition of low quality critiques; reflection on how this is often the case given the basic nature of defense/security planning and knowledge gap; technical/legal rationale versus rhetorical criticism.

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Canadian-U.S. Security Relations & Ballistic Missile Defence. Introduction Canadian public sentiment concerning all defense-related agreements with the United States can lag behind public knowledge of a much changed security environment. The United States has researched matters of ballistic missiles and possible missile defense systems since the 1940s as an early venture of the emerging Cold War. In the 1970s, a prototype missile detection and intervention system was in effect briefly through to the 1980s spectacle of President Reagan's notorious Star Wars venture that tended to alienate Canadian opinion from American security matters

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