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What would a Japanese nuclear deterrent look like?

At the end of the day, Tokyo has to look out for itself.

Maritime News and Analysis

Maritime News and Analysis

China has no interest in provoking Japan into building them, but intentions sometimes go awry. Heres What You Need to Know: Obviously, under current circumstances, it’s not in anyone’s interests for Japan to have nuclear weapons. Still, it must be recognized that if pushed, it could certainly do so. Although a long ways off, all sides should remember that increasingly strained relations between Japan, China, and Russia could make a bad situation much, much worse. It is perhaps China’s an...

It’s not in anyone’s interests for Japan to have nuclear weapons. Heres What You Need to Know: Japan’s high population density would mean that the destruction of just a handful of cities could kill or injure the majority of the country’s civilian population. It is perhaps China’s and even North Koreas greatest nightmare: a nuclear-armed Japan. Permanently anchored off the Asian mainland, bristling with nuclear weapons, a nuclear Japan would make China’s security situation much more...

Japan keeps a stockpile of the necessary material. Just in case. It is perhaps China’s greatest nightmare: a nuclear-armed Japan. Permanently anchored off the Asian mainland, bristling with nuclear weapons, a nuclear Japan would make China’s security situation much more complex than it is now, and force China to revise both its nuclear doctrine and increase its nuclear arsenal. To be perfectly clear, Japan has no intention of building nuclear weapons. In fact, it has a strong aversion to nu...