Asia's latent nuclear powers Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

Asia's latent nuclear powers Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

Under what conditions would the democracies in Northeast Asia seek to join the nuclear weapons club? Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are threshold nuclear powers by virtue of their robust civilian nuclear-energy programmes. All three once pursued nuclear weapons and all face nuclear-armed adversarie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Mark (Senior fellow for non-proliferation) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London International Institute for Strategic Studies [2016]
Series:Adelphi (Series) (International Institute for Strategic Studies) 455.
Subjects:
Nuclear nonproliferation > Japan.
Nuclear nonproliferation > Korea (South)
Nuclear nonproliferation > Taiwan.