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

... 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... ... easily reconciled with the submarine deal, in spite of their preceding vows to sign the TPNW. Returning to AUKUS, it indeed sets a precedent for a NNWS to acquire a sensitive...