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Concept of Operations in the Event of Unlimited Nuclear War, 1957-1963

  • 27 May 1957: First Draft
  • May-June 1957: CSC Amendments
  • 13 June 1957: DRB Amendments
  • 2 October 1957: New Draft
  • October 1957: Further DRB Comments
  • 28 November 1957: New Draft
  • February 1958: JIC Amendments
  • April 1958: "Nature of Future War"
  • 14 November 1958: ICBM Revisions
  • November 1958-January 1959: "Battle for Survival"
  • May-June 1959: JIC Report on Appendix A
  • 10 July 1959: A Report to the JPC by a Working Group on the Revision of CSC Paper
  • 14 July 1959: JPC Agrees
  • 29 July 1959: JPC's Second Report
  • August-September 1959: Revisions and Delays
  • 16 March 1960: New Draft
  • 24 June 1960: Army Amendments
  • 5 July 1960: Another Round of Revisions
  • 29 September 1960: Latest Draft
  • 18 October 1960: JPC Meeting
  • 26 October 1960: RCAF Amendment to Section VII
  • 1-7 November 1960: Additional Amendments
  • 30 November 1960: New Draft
  • 23 February 1961: CSC Approval
  • 17 March 1961: Final Draft
  • 9 July 1963: Status of the Concept Document
  • 28 August 1964: Transfer of Responsibility
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28 August 1964: Transfer of Responsibility

Going forward, responsibility for the Concept document was transferred from the JPC to the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (ACDS).

Purves to EA/ACDS, "Concept of Operations/CSC 1-57 (of the Canadian Armed Forces in the Event of a Major War," 28 Aug. 1964, LAC, RG 25, vol. 4903, file no. 50115-P-40, part 3.

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