Wikileaks: Canada not up to defusing nuclear threat

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OTTAWA—Canada admitted it cannot fully defend against the threat of a nuclear device and begged the United States military to lend a hand less than a year before the 2010 Olympics, secret cables between the two countries reveal.

Eight months before Canada hosted the international athletic event in British Columbia, Ottawa was scrambling to get security plans in place and turned to the country’s more able American counterparts to help prepare for a doomsday scenario, according to two diplomatic notes put out by Wikileaks.

“Although unlikely, Canada could potentially face the threat of an improvised or military nuclear device being constructed in, or imported to, its national territory,” says the June 2009 cable first released to the Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network.

“Canada does not currently possess the capability for the rendering safe of a nuclear device.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/986685--wikileaks-canada-not-up-to-defusing-nuclear-threat?bn=1