NORAD Consequences

NORAD
Background/Causes of Event:
After World War two tensions between Capitalist America and Communist Russia were high. A cold war began when the two super powers began to build more powerful, technology advanced, and for lack of a better word, better weapons. After VJ Day Russia knew what America was capable of and began to stock-pile nuclear weapons. Fear of attack America did the same thinking that no one would want to attack a nation with a larger military power. Both countries spent billions each year of military power and after all that, both countries were at a standstill. Though the nations repeated one of the underlying causes from world war one no actual fighting ever happened. Proxy wars were fought, supplying countries that for

On May 12, 1958 the first NORAD agreement was signed by the government of Canada and America. NORAD is a bilingual initiative to protect both Canada and the United States. NORAD was established to monitor and if needed, defend North American airspace. Whether it is space crafts, missiles, or aircrafts, NORAD warns us from an imminent attack. Each NORAD renewal changes the mission slightly but by far one of the biggest was the last NORAD agreement renewal in 2006 which made these changes.
• It created a permanent NORAD Agreement which meant that there would be no need to future renewals and that both countries agree to the responsibilities of the bi-national defence alliance. Furthermore, signing this new agreement means that both countries “are in”. to that affect a country must give a year’s notice to their

Physical assets like fighter jets and weapons, personnel which includes Canadian Armed Forces serving in both Canada and America and financial resources are all given to NORAD to help protect North America. The largest contribution to NORAD is the North Warning System which is a chain of radar stations along the northern edge of North America. Even though both countries continuously renew and agree to be a part of NORAD, the Canadian and U.S. governments still have the final say on issues that relate to their own defence and can respond in whatever way they feel is best for their country.

Significance of NORAD:
The significance and importance of NORAD is quite obvious, protect. Canada and the U.S. both obtain a lot from each other.
Canada receives tremendous benefits from its relationship with America through NORAD, these include:
• heightened protection from a military attack;
• awareness into U.S. thinking on security matters
• training and operational experience that helps North America, the UN, and NATO
• access to U.S. test facilities which helped the Canadian Armed Forces develop many technologies
• help stimulate around 50,000 Canadian defence and aerospace jobs