A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

... (non-NPT) can be found in the Asia-Pacific. Such countries choose not to participate in the NPT in exchange for their choice to go nuclear. Obviously, the most frequently cited... ... Towards a Nuclear Horizon On the other hand, certain individual mid-level powers in the Asia-Pacific region also show certain behavioral similarities. The emergence of the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” with its accompanying ideologemes (such as “rules-based order”)... ... In addition to truly consequential visits by Ohio-class submarines to the port of Busan, a Nuclear Consultative Group was established, primarily to regularly coordinate...