However, the new aircraft and new enhancements are not only required for their nuclear role but are also vital to maintaining an adequate conventional deterrent.
It is clear that AEA has two quite distinct missions: the first is to fulfil our traditional nuclear role by:
At the same time, Trudeau eliminated Canada's nuclear role, eventually removing all nuclear arms from Canadian soil.
So it, in the absence of the Tasm and in the absence of the capability then it's not gonna have a nuclear role.
Grand Forks relinquished its nuclear role, but Minot continues.
Following the introduction of Polaris in 1968 the RAF's strategic nuclear role was reduced to a tactical one, using the WE.177 gravity bombs.
The definition of the nuclear role for the Canadian Air Division in NATO followed a similar sequence.
A6 France shows a willingness to discuss its nuclear role in NATO.
The Pentagon's posture review, by continuing to embrace an outmoded cold-war strategy, will impede any significant reduction in nuclear roles.
The Navy was eager to maintain a nuclear role in its rivalry with the Air Force, and it equipped 10 squadrons with the FJ-4B.