In article qLvyb.536636$9l5.371394@pd7tw2no,
"Ed Majden" wrote:

The replacement was the IM99B Bomarc SAM complete with nuclear warhead.
Range of that was in the 200-400 miles bracket, a great place to have a
nuclear weapon go off and scatter radiation over Canadian cities and towns.
I guess the yanks didn't consider that when they gave them to us! Good
thing they were never used, eh! Only good thing about the Bomarc was to be
assigned to the debriefing, parking and turn around crews. ;-)

You should remember that with small fission warheads at high altitudes,
there is very little fallout, and practically zero compared to even a
single megaton-level ground strike.

Not to mention that they planned on using the same size of warhead over
most of the continental US for air defense...

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