OPINION: Australia's nuclear submarine plan increases unthinkable danger of war

Before making any firm decisions toward acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines, the Japanese government and people should consider carefully the lessons of Australia becoming the first state without nuclear weapons to embark on this fraught path.Former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating has called the estimated AU$368 billion nuclear submarine plan with the so-called AUKUS alliance with Britain and the United States for a total of eight submarines the "worst deal in all history" and "the worst international decision" by a Labor government since Prime Minister Billy Hughes twice tried to…READ FULL ARTICLE