cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/18428
China released an official report on Thursday stating that Japan “may already have produced weapons-grade plutonium in secret” and “has the technological and economic capabilities to achieve nuclear armament in a short period of time”. The report assessing Japan’s nuclear threat cited former US president Joe Biden’s direct message to Chinese President Xi Jinping that Japan had the capacity to have nuclear weapons “virtually overnight”. Biden first disclosed the information in an interview with…
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking the US’s strategy might be. Though it would probably be hard for them to find a proxy that is both stable enough to build nuclear weapons and also suicidal enough to use them.
Counter point