https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/02ebb60c84218229a72566852457ebd3.pdf cc8244525110ab60c915a19f04f3fef7 PDF Text Text Document.dis.closed under£he Acresjtolnfo^ma/jfHuAct • D ^ - ^ n t t e i g f m <reWM la L^WuffaccesVFfnformation DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL A F F A I R S MEMORANDUM ^ .P.r. TO: FROM: ay. -"V q^n. TOP SECRET Security Date July 6, 1955 |ile No. $he..Vnder-S( REFERENCE: SUBJECT: <"v/ ifa u H £sk9 :T Meeting'with'"the Minister on the Study 9.?. National Security Policy ^g^1 The Minister has agreed to meet in his office in the House of Commons at noon on Friday, July 8, to have a talk on national security policy with officers of the Department* 2. As you know, the Department put forward proposals on November 17 last that there should be a reassessment of Canadian national security policy in the light of developments in the field of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them. We had in mind particularly that important adjustments would be required in our approach to foreign policy because of these developments, and especially the approaching sufficiency of nuclear weapons available to the Soviet Union as well as to the United States. 3 The Minister wrote to Mr. Campney on four different occasions, suggesting that Ministerial approval be given to such a study. General Foulkes has now written to Mr. Bryce, suggesting that Cabinet Defence Committee give the necessary authorization to proceed with such a study, indicating that Mr. Campney has agreed. 4 In the meantime a preliminary paper, examining some of the foreign policy implications of the reliance on the nuclear deterrent to prevent war, has been prepared in the Department and circulated to the officers concerned (The Strategic Concept of the Nuclear Deterrent 1955), a copy of which is attached for easy reference. 000470 U.^U) �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a Finformation TOP SECRET - 2 - 5. The purpose of the meeting on Friday would be (a) to discuss with the Minister the participation of the Department in the reassessment of Canadian defence policy proposed by the Department of National Defence, and (b) to discuss the further examination in the Department of the foreign policy implications of nuclear developments. In connection with (b), Mr. Reid has prepared a memorandum, a copy of which Is attached. jl Under-Secretary of State foricxternal Affairs Similar memorandum sent tor D^s—MacKay Mr. Heeney Mr. Reid Mr. Wershof Mr. Chapdelaine Mr. Crean Mr. Cadieux Mr. Ford 000471 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDNW00129 Title A name given to the resource Memorandum, J. Leger for R.A. MacKay, "Meeting with the Minister on the Study on National Security Policy" Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7/6/1955 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Study on Canadian National Security Policy, RG25, file 50333-40, LAC. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Department of External Affairs Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Early Cold War, Canadian National Security Description An account of the resource Department of External Affairs, Ottawa Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource en