Diefenbaker, the Tocsin tests were essentially public dress rehearsals for the day the bomb might eventually fall. The test, named Tocsin II, or Tocsin B, was the third exercise of its kind attempted in Canada and the second in 1961. The spectacular scale of death and destruction was part of a simulation conducted at the height of the Cold War as an element of the largest emergency preparedness drill ever undertaken in Canada. Or at least that’s what happened on paper. More than 2 million people were incinerated and another 1.5 million were burned or exposed to fatal levels of radiation in the deadliest single military attack in the history of the world. On November 13, 1961, Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, North Bay, and cities across Canada were destroyed by nuclear bombs.
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