The Cold War

Currently Playing: Closing the Bomber Gap: Canada's CF-105 Arrow

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a look at Canada's legendary, some would say mythologized, CF-105 Arrow interceptor. We examine the birth of the program, its development, and eventual cancellation but especially examine what it tells us about the Bomber Gap and the changing strategic landscape of airpower in the late 1950s. A History of Maoism: https://youtu.be/WM7qSQqAg_0 Soviet Domination of Chess: https://youtu.be/uRGf08o4_W0 China's Cultural Revolution: https://youtu.be/fCA5VP5Tdrs Commercial Air Travel: https://youtu.be/fqVtEa5ooJ0 Reykjavik Summit 1986: https://youtu.be/xmDHy4M7rdM Saturday Morning Cartoons: https://youtu.be/hPToTKCcycI The Profumo Affair: https://youtu.be/PfQ-FY3zPdM Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: https://youtu.be/52bC38bm6rk America's Bioweapons pt 2: https://youtu.be/0yEVIRy23H4 America's Bioweapons pt 1: https://youtu.be/12WyLu6WuBs The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: https://youtu.be/6zRat81cDrg The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Canada #RCAF #RoyalCanadianAirForce #CF105 #Arrow #Avro #AvroArrow **SOURCES** Alan Barnes, "Watching the Bear: Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America 1946-1964", UBC Press, 2025 Donald Story and Russell Isinger, "The Origins of the Cancellation of Canada's Avro CF-105 Arrow Fighter Program: A Failure of Strategy"JSS, vol 30 No.6, Dec 2007 Alan Barnes, "Arrows, Bear, and Secrets: The ROle of Intelligence in Decisions on the CF-105 Program", CMH, vol 32. issue.2, 2023 Palmiro Campagna, "The Avro Arrow: For the Record", Dundern Press, 2024 Donald Story and Russell Isinger, "Hubris: The CF-105 Avro Arrow Program and the end of the Golden Age of the RCAF" in "On the Wings of War & Peace: The RCAF During the Early Cold War" ed. Wakelam, March, Rayls, UofT Press, 2023 https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/01/middle-powers-multilateralism-international-relations/ https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/canadawar/royalairforce_e.html