Ryan J. Yoder
@fanchig @randahl
Luckily, I don't think we're there quite yet. But yeah we're on a verge of an arms race.
Mar 2 at 9:40pmWeb
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@ryanjyoder @fanchig @randahl

no we're very much in it

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/67089

Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says

A source within Japan's prime minister's office said Thursday that the country needs nuclear weapons, remarks that deviate from the country's long-standing non-nuclear principles and could trigger backlash at home and abroad.

Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS
Show threadRyan J. YoderMar 2
@benroyce @fanchig @randahl
I mean nuclear containment has been a thing since they existed. But currently there is only one power that has an arsenal to rival the US's and this system has been more or less stable since the cold war. Japan will not have one any time soon, if at all.
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@ryanjyoder @fanchig @randahl

i mean you keep denying we are entering an arms race. i certainly am not saying japan has one already. but the genie is out of the bottle now and there's nothing on the horizon that would put it back in

Show threadRyan J. YoderMar 2
@benroyce @fanchig @randahl
Maybe this is just semantics. Are we in an arms race or on the verge of an arms race? Countries just talking about nukes doesn't qualify for me. China testing a nuke is more worrying to me.
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@ryanjyoder @fanchig @randahl

that's fair

i would respond that things are sliding in such a way that there is no sliding back

there is nothing going on in the world that suggests countries will back down from their new posture, and in fact plenty of accelerating behaviors that points to this new arms race as a near certainty