Nuclear arsenals not the strategic answer for Japan and South Korea

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Loo, Bernard Fook Weng
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2023
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Political science; Country and Region Studies; Energy Security
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165496
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Nuclear weapons might seem to allow Japan and South Korea to balance against their hostile and nuclear-armed neighbours, China and North Korea, respectively. In fact, this is not the case. Indigenous nuclear arsenals may create the very instabilities that both Japan and South Korea are seeking to of...