Ex-marine claims nuclear weapons stored at Nfld. base
An American veteran who says he guarded a secret stash of nuclear weapons in Newfoundland claims his government would rather see him dead than admit to violations of international law.
Almon Scott, who worked as a guard at the Argentia military base between 1963 and 1965, claims that years before Ottawa allowed nuclear weapons on Canadian soil, he was guarding them at a secret weapons lab in Placentia Bay.
Scott, who is dying, blames the cancer in his blood and bones on his duties four decades ago.
He claims the U.S. government is not only refusing to help him, but will not give the veteran his own service records because that would mean admitting to its ally that it had nuclear materials on Canadian soil without informing the government.
CBC News: Ex-marine claims nuclear weapons stored at Nfld. base
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