In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been turbo-charged by Donald Trump’s tough treatment of traditional U.S. allies, which has some in Tokyo and Seoul calling for a reassessment of their non-nuclear policies.

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    14 hours ago

    Building nukes is like unionizing; ideally you don’t go public until you already have your nukes/union

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      6 minutes ago

      Realistically, I can’t see a situation where the UK wouldn’t agree to sell to Canada if Canada felt it was needed.

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      7 hours ago

      Gonna be tough to hide when all our computer systems run on Microsoft, Google, or Amazon platforms.