Canadian Forces' International Operations and Expansion Into Space

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2. One of five space activities in which Canada is involved. It regards, notably, the radio and televisual sectors.
3. Russian equivalent of the GPS satellite system.
5. Name of the first satellite successfully orbiting Earth.
7. Soldiers involved in the international enforcement and supervision of a truce between hostile states or communities.
10. This American President establishes a Technological Capabilities Panel in 1954, which studied different possibilities to counter any surprise attack by the Soviets.
13. American pilot who's U-2 photo recognition plane crashed in the USSR.
15. Name given to a Protocol that proposes to stop the enrollment of under aged soldiers.
16. In February 2000, this country proposed a treaty that would ban any military use of space.
17. Name of the hurricane that devastated Honduras and Nicaragua in October 1998.

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1. Form of liberalism, which tolerates a limited intervention from the government.
3. This powerful ecological organization is against any Canadian participation to the American "Star Wars" antimissile space program.
4. This type of weapons of mass destruction are banned from any new deployment in space by a 1967 Treaty.
6. Acronym for the intercontinental ballistic missile.
8. This Atlanta-based news channel had a great influence on the international reactions to the Somalian and Yougoslavian crises.
9. This Northern Europe nation cooperated with Canada in regard to space science.
11. In 1972, the Americans started to work on this particular antimissile missile system.
12. In 1972, the signing of an antimissile treaty between this country and the United States of America's main objective was to have a strategic stability between both countries.
14. This type of missile was often used against Iraqi SCUD missiles during the First Gulf War.

 

 

 

 

 

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