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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (792561)6/30/2014 1:43:35 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (3) of 1587370
 
I worry about our relationship with Japan. That's one thing that could really be a sticky whicket for us.
I wouldn't worry about Japan. Despite their feelings about nukes, they have a huge stockpile of plutonium, and no doubt have plans to create a nuclear arsenal as soon as the need is evident. Nothing takes care of huge armies crossing seas better than nukes.

Japan Pushes Plan to Stockpile Plutonium, Despite Proliferation Risks

By HIROKO TABUCHI
nytimes.com

TOKYO — Just weeks after Japan agreed to give up a cache of weapons-grade plutonium, the country is set to push ahead with a program that would produce new stockpiles of the material, creating a proliferation risk for decades to come.

Though that additional plutonium would not be the grade that is most desirable for bombs, and is therefore less of a threat, it could — in knowledgeable hands and with some work and time — be used to make a weapon. The newly created stockpiles would add to tons of other plutonium already being stored in Japan.

“The government made a big deal out of returning several hundred kilograms of plutonium, but it brushes over the fact that Japan has so much more,” said Sumio Mabuchi, an opposition lawmaker who served as adviser to the government in the early days of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. “It’s hypocritical.”

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