Japan's Nuclear Future: Policy Debate, Prospects, and U.S. Interests
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This paper examines the prospects for Japan pursuing a nuclear weapons capability by assessing the existing technical infrastructure of its extensive civilian nuclear energy program. It explores the range of challenges that Japan would have to overcome to transform its current program into a military program. In addition, a range of legal and political restraints on Japan's development of nuclear weapons, including averse public and elite opinion, restrictive domestic laws and practices, and th…
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Date:
May 9, 2008
Creator:
Chanlett-Avery, Emma & Nikitin, Mary Beth
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