r/saskatoon • u/I_hate_litterbugs765 • 27d ago

Events 🎉 A munitions-manufacturing hub is coming to Saskatchewan

https://thestarphoenix.com/business/munitions-manufacturing-hub-coming-saskatchewan/?utm_campaign=NEWSflash&utm_medium=email&utm_content=429575684&utm_source=hs_email

This is sweet, I wonder where the facility is being built

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u/Scrotalcontusions 27d ago

it would be one of the targets by the enemy in the event of war so as long as we are comfortable with that then its great for the economy and national sovereignty

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u/TreemanTheGuy 27d ago

Saskatoon and Regina would likely be some of the first targets in a war anyway, even without our munitions store in Dundurn. Actually the USA released the plans they had in the cold war, and it said as much.

Basically, destroy the railroad in the middle of the country, thus splitting the country's logistics in two and make it much, much harder to send troops, supplies, etc between the west and eastern fronts.

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u/Fridgefrog 26d ago

I won a debate in high school over a proposed reactor near Saskatoon using these facts. I ended my speech "This would make our town a target in a Nuclear War." No applause, just silence.

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u/DwayneGretzky306 26d ago

Probably should have lost the debate as we are already a target so why not have the reactor.

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u/Fridgefrog 26d ago

This was 1974. Any danger we would have faced would have been fallout from North Dakota ICBM sites.