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Japan's Nuclear Future : Policy Debate, Prospects, and U.S. Interests / Emma Chanlett-Avery, Mary Beth Nikitin, Library of Congress Congressional Research Service.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chanlett-Avery, Emma, author.
- Series:
- CRS report for Congress ; Number RL34487.
- CRS report for Congress ; Number RL34487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (13 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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 the negative diplomatic consequences of abandoning its traditional approach is analyzed.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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