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CANADA ATOMIC WEAPONS MONITORING OFFICIAL MAIL UNITED KINGDOM ALDERMASTON 1966
Official cover from the Department of National Defence with Maple Leaf Postmark 'Canadian Joint Staff/London SW7/Official Mail Postmarked London SW1 17th May 1966 and Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Research Establishment arrival 18th May 1966.
While Canada was deeply involved in Atomic Weapons in World War 2, alongside the U.S. and the U.K.,after the war the U.S. excluded Canada from direct participation in it's Nuclear Weapons programme.
None the less, Canada decided to build a small reactor and a pilot plant to extract plutonium which reached full power in 1948.
Canada co-operated with the U.K. although it never developed an interest in pursuing nuclear weapons.
This cover illustrates the strong association between Canada's Department of Defence and the U.K.'s Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.
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