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Griffith Asia Institute Featured Publication Purchase the book from Ashgate press For a country already uneasy about energy security, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which caused a nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, turned pre-existing Japanese concern about the availability of energy into outright anxiety. The subsequent closure of many nuclear reactors meant […]

Professor Tatsujiro Suzuki, Vice Chairman of Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission, talks to ABC Radio National about the Fukushima nuclear plant. Professor Suzuki was in Brisbane attending the Griffith Asia Institute’s annual Australia-Japan Dialogue. The 2013 Dialogue was on the topic of Energy Security and was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of […]

In an opinion piece for The Strategist, Adjunct Researcher Rod Lyon discusses whether or not low-yield weapons are uniquely dangerous – more likely to be used than their larger siblings, less amenable to positive control by national leaderships, and an invitation to nuclear arms races and escalation ladders. Read the full article here.

“There’s been a resurgence of interest in recent years among Australian academics in the issue of US extended nuclear assurance to its Asian allies in general and to Australia in particular. I’ve written on this issue, but so too have Andrew O’Neill, Stephan Fruehling, Ron Huisken, and Richard Tanter, to name just some of the […]

Professor Andrew O’Neil discusses the possibility that the recent threats by North Korea could escalate. He takes a look at the capabilities of North Korea, in terms of nuclear weapons. According the Prof. O’Neil if the North Korean’s launch a threatening attack on South Korea or the US it will not be ignored.   You […]