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With AUKUS, Washington Plays With Fire Down Under

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With AUKUS, Washington Plays With Fire Down Under

Australia breaks its nonproliferation obligations

Dec 13, 2021
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With AUKUS, Washington Plays With Fire Down Under

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By: B A Hamzah

By agreeing to receive eight state-of-the-art nuclear-powered propulsion submarines under the AUKUS accord from the United States and the United Kingdom, Australia has consciously breached its obligations under the binding 1968 Treaty of Non-Proliferation, which Canberra ratified in 1970. Until September 2021, when AUKUS suddenly popped up…

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