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Record W2905313931 · doi:10.4324/9780203702802-7

Canada’s affair with nuclear weapons

2018· book-chapter· en· W2905313931 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Don Munton

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNuclear Issues and Defense
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNuclear weaponPolitical scienceComputer securityHistoryLawComputer science

Abstract

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Canada experienced two relatively brief periods of intimacy with “the bomb.” During World War II, Canada was involved in the US-led Manhattan Project. Canada’s wartime experience did not lead to the development of a national nuclear weapons capability but led to the emergence of a domestic nuclear power industry. Ottawa marketed its civil nuclear technology abroad but also professed support for non-proliferation norms and the emergence of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The other period of intimacy, during the 1960s and 1970s, featured acquisition of US nuclear arms both for Canada’s NATO forces in Europe and for North American continental defence. Canada also permitted storage of US nuclear weapons on Canadian soil. Not long after accepting four US nuclear weapon systems in 1963 under joint American and Canadian control, Ottawa began relinquishing these recently acquired arms. It retired three of the four weapon systems by the early 1970s and the fourth in 1984. The de-nuclearization was not, as might be conjectured, prompted or influenced by the 1968 NPT. The Canada-US joint custody arrangement was not a case of proliferation given the wording of Article 2 of the Treaty. Canada’s relinquishing was prompted by a rethinking of cold war era nuclear strategies and of international roles.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.107
Threshold uncertainty score0.779

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0140.007
Scholarly communication0.0060.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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