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Videos about the Cold War in Canada & Beyond
- 2023 CityNews video – Why is Canada updating its emergency nuclear protocols?
- Titan II missile silo – Turning the Key
- YouTube Video of a Titan II Launch Crew Procedure Re-Enacted (for touring visitors) at the Titan II Museum Just south of Tucson, AZ.
- United States Air Force (USAF) Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Launch – including all authorisation steps in the control capsule.
- CEGHQ ‘In-Briefing for Officials’ Reenactment (enter the password ‘diefenbunker’):
- This is a 27 minute video re-enactment of the type of briefing that would have been provided to officials having duties in the CEGHQ (The Diefenbunker) once activated, if nuclear war was expected. The script was written by myself and video-graphed by my daughter Amber Peters and edited by Bonnie Robinson of YOW Productions, Ottawa. Bunker volunteers and guest actors played the part of federal government officials around the War Cabinet table.
- Canadian Forces Base North Bay NORAD Bunker – CBC Video circa 1990s
- Virtual Tour of The Diefenbunker – Canada’s Cold War Museum
- The Nuclear Roof
- This is a link to a 9+ minute condensation of the original 23 minute video on the construction of the ‘Diefenbunker’ at Carp, Ont. (with a few shots of the Tx site at Richardson, Ont.) This video is no longer viewable on the Diefenbunker Museum website, however the Ottawa Public Library has three DVD copies of the full video available to lend out to library members.
- In its earlier years as a museum this video was transcribed from a 16mm film made by the Foundation Company of Canada (which later (?) became FENCO and still later AECON). It was originally SECRET but was declassified some years after knowledge of the building itself was made public by PM Trudeau (the 1st) in the early 1980s. It is believed that the film deliberately didn’t mention the real purpose of the facility (as an Emergency Government HQ – in fact the ‘flagship’ building – in the Continuity of Government Program) because the Company was trying to use the film as a sales tool. Instead, for security purposes they continued to promulgate the cover story of the building simply being a high level experimental telecommunication facility – an “E.A.S.E.” site.
- As mentioned copies of the video are available from the Ottawa Public Library with the following note: “A recently declassified film, Nuclear Roof depicts the design and construction of Canada’s secret nuclear bunker, engineered to house the federal government in the occurrence of a nuclear attack. Built in secrecy during a 14 month period between 1959 and 1961, the facility became active in 1962 and operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year for over 33 years. This fascinating engineering feat, now a museum, is open to the public. Take a rare look at how it all began…”
coldwarincanada2026-01-17T18:34:00-05:00
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