Originally Posted by
gums
I ask....... How many countries would allow nuclear-armed buffs from another country fly over their territory? Think Chrome Dome procedures back in the late 60's.
So I would rate them very "close".
And starting about 1963, the Canadians 'borrowed' U.S. nukes and deployed them at home and in West Germany.
Officially Canada had no nukes because the 'special weapons' were property of the U.S. But they were deployed on CF-104's, and on CF-101's into the 1980's in the case of the Genie air-to-air rocket.
There was also some apparent maritime deployment but it is unclear to me whether it was just for training articles or for actual war shots.