The Bomb

The next issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores the prospect of countries in Asia starting to develop nuclear weapons as the region's changing balance of power poses new questions about their future security.

As anxieties grow about the reliability of the United States as a partner, The Bomb looks at the possibility of a nuclear arms race breaking out in Asia that would likely start with South Korea, and then Japan, and would leave countries such as Australia contemplating previously unthinkable options