Canada’s Arctic Radar Upgrade Reveals Growing Missile Threats to North America

In a stark reminder of the escalating global missile threat environment, Canada has announced the installation of an advanced over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) system in the Arctic. This move, jointly undertaken with the United States under NORAD's umbrella, underscores a growing urgency to detect hypersonic missiles and other emerging weapons from so-called 'malignant states' far before they reach North American airspace. Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty made clear that this new radar technology can detect missile launches thousands of kilometers away by bouncing high-frequency radio waves off the ionosphere—far surpassing the outdated Northern Warning System built in the 1980s that struggles...