Jimmy Carter has had long and surprising connections to Canada, including the time he helped save us from a nuclear meltdown.
Carter’s recalled both events at the book launch for Kingston, Ont., historian Arthur Milnes’s volume Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: A Canadian Tribute, in Plains, Ga., on April 30, 2011:
All of us lately have been watching with a great deal of concern and despair the meltdown of the nuclear reactors in Japan. The same thing happened in Canada. At that time the nuclear program was one of the most secret in the world and I was blessed to be one of the few young naval officers who was privy to those secrets. I worked for Admiral Hyram Rickover and I was in charge of the crew that built the second atomic submarine, the USS Sea Wolf.
Then we went down below into the reactor room. We dashed on the site there and in a highly radioactive environment, did our job. I had radioactive urine for six months and I thought I would never have another child but Amy came later. But it was an indication even in my early life of the remarkably close ties that exist between every Canadian citizen and every citizen in the United States.
One of the interesting things that happened was that we had support personnel there, they pretended to be a television crew. And they all had false passports, German passports. One of them came out and he had his first name and then “H” his middle name. When he got to the place where his credentials were examined and the Iranians said, “This is not a good passport because Germans never use initials, in their middle names, they always have all their names spelled out.
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