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Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong told Senate estimates that she was happy to defer to Washington on whether or not the B52s stationed in Australia would carry nuclear weapons. Binoy Kampmark reports.  

The Houston and Smith review now on the defence minister’s desk will have to make sense of a huge hardware shopping list, centred on submarines.

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An AUKUS announcement is "imminent," Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said. "We're in conversation with both the UK and the US around the manner in which that is ultimately announced."

Not so long ago, the merest hint that Australia was dabbling in nuclear anything with our US allies would have provoked citywide protests.

It is not farfetched to make the point that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons. Whatever the promises made by governments that such delivery systems will not carry such loads, stifling secrecy over such arrangements can only stir doubt. That is the problem facing the

Gen Angus Campbell declares Australia and Japan are bound together by ‘increasingly shared strategic challenges’

Will the SDR make big decisions and refocus Australia's strategy? "It ultimately comes down to the ultimate question that we're not really good at answering in this country— what are we really trying do with our military?" Marcus Hellyer of ASPI said.

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