18, 2006, at the NORAD command center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colo. and Canadian military personnel, work the night shift Jan. There would also be some question as to whether it can actually hit a specific target.Ī missile aimed at San Francisco, for instance, could miss and strike the coast of B.C., according to Christian Leuprecht, a political science professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. Essentially, the decision to shoot the missile down would rest entirely with the Americans.Įxperts say, at that point, there’d be no telling which city the bomb was meant for, unless Kim Jong Un announced it himself. Canadians working at NORAD would also be able to relay the message to the prime minister, although there would be
From that point, the news would be forwarded to the White House and the United States would activate its emergency broadcasting system. South Korea would also likely detect the launch and relay that information to the rest of the world, as it does during most North Korean test launches. Northcom would be the first to detect an intercontinental ballistic missile launch from North Korea, likely through satellite observation, up to five minutes after liftoff. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) This Jfile photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea. But for millennials, this marks the first time during their lives when the possibility of a nuclear attack on home soil is serious enough to warrant public discussion.ĬTVNews.ca spoke with several experts to pose the big question: What if? What if everything went wrong, and North Korea launched a nuclear missile strike against North America? and the Soviet Union, when there was constant dread in North America that Russia might suddenly launch a nuclear attack. target and hit somewhere in Canada instead.įear of nuclear annihilation is nothing new to those who remember the Cold War tensions between the U.S. Now, with North Korea boasting the ability to hit North America with a hydrogen bomb delivered via intercontinental ballistic missile, experts say such an attack could potentially miss an intended U.S.
It’s a doomsday scenario that has gone from unthinkable to remotely possible in just a few short years. For the first time in decades, it’s possible – however unlikely – that Canada could experience a nuclear attack from a rogue nation that appears eager to show off its military strength against our allies to the south.
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