But Hitler's Nazi menace would soon be replaced by a new threat to world peace as the Soviet Union and the United States faced off in the Cold War. Canada was thrust into the Cold War world ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

Canada soon discovered the type of Bomarc missiles ... Kennedy to accept nuclear warheads. In October 1962, Cold War tensions peaked when the Soviet Union secretly introduced offensive missiles ...