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Podcast: Radioactive Show
Episode: Sleepwalking into War? IPAN Conference 2024
Description: Today we continue looking at the AUKUS military pact and in particular the tightening of the relationship between Australia and US military operations.As Vince Scappatura points out in his article 'Australia’s evolving nuclear posture: avoiding a fait accompli' published in Pearls and Irritations on the 12 October "AUKUS epitomises Australia’s geostrategic transformation and evolving nuclear posture within the US alliance. The significance of this transformation is reflected in the fact that Australia will soon become ‘the only ally in the world to host and support military operations by forward-deployed US strategic bombers and SSN attack submarines’. This comes in addit...