- 15 Jul 2003 15:49
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AUSTRALIA is giving itself the option of becoming a nuclear power through a deal with the US to obtain nuclear weapons and extensive investment in atomic expertise, it has been claimed.
A leading strategic policy expert says Australia is forging an understanding with the US that would ensure quick access to "off the shelf" tactical nuclear weapons during a crisis.
And a former senior Howard Government science adviser says the new $600 million reactor at Lucas Heights will ensure Australia has the skills and technology to launch a nuclear weapons program.
"There is no doubt in my mind that a main purpose of Lucas Heights is to maintain Australia's capacity to develop nuclear weapons," the former adviser said this week.
"It is Australia's insurance policy against the future, just in case the US does not come to our aid. We are way more advanced in nuclear technology than Saddam Hussein ever was."
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6744863%255E2,00.html
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Well, I know the govs want for nuclear weaponry has been around for awhile, with the government of John Gorton initially reluctant to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty and it has been theorised that Lucas Heights and a mysterious never-built facility at Jervis Bay were to be used for the development of nuclear weapons.
What are your thoughts on this.
Mine, I am sick of this, we may aswell change our name to 'Little America".
Australia is under absolutely no threat of invasion and for any country to attempt it would be foolhardy.
Who's to say that somewhere down the line, Australia won't disagree with the US on an issue and the president of the time says that because we're capable of nuclear bombs that we are part of some axis of evil?
A leading strategic policy expert says Australia is forging an understanding with the US that would ensure quick access to "off the shelf" tactical nuclear weapons during a crisis.
And a former senior Howard Government science adviser says the new $600 million reactor at Lucas Heights will ensure Australia has the skills and technology to launch a nuclear weapons program.
"There is no doubt in my mind that a main purpose of Lucas Heights is to maintain Australia's capacity to develop nuclear weapons," the former adviser said this week.
"It is Australia's insurance policy against the future, just in case the US does not come to our aid. We are way more advanced in nuclear technology than Saddam Hussein ever was."
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6744863%255E2,00.html
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Well, I know the govs want for nuclear weaponry has been around for awhile, with the government of John Gorton initially reluctant to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty and it has been theorised that Lucas Heights and a mysterious never-built facility at Jervis Bay were to be used for the development of nuclear weapons.
What are your thoughts on this.
Mine, I am sick of this, we may aswell change our name to 'Little America".
Australia is under absolutely no threat of invasion and for any country to attempt it would be foolhardy.
Who's to say that somewhere down the line, Australia won't disagree with the US on an issue and the president of the time says that because we're capable of nuclear bombs that we are part of some axis of evil?
. Boon get out of our thread.
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