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Nuclear Proliferation Stands To Make A Comeback Now, Starting With Iran

And then maybe Sweden, or Poland, or who the hell knows

Apr 21, 2024
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During the 1980s, New Zealand-American strategic relations took a nose dive over nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed US Navy vessels. In what they saw as an assertion of national independence, New Zealand voters chose to create a “Nuclear Free Zone” in their territorial waters. The split started in 1985 when the USS Buchanan (DDG-14) refused to declare wh…

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