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Developing nuclear weapons together – Japan and UK

UK and Japan agree to act in unison on nuclear interests Enformable, 13 April 12, For the first time in history, Japan has agreed to develop weapons with a country other than the United States, proclaiming the agreement will strengthen bilateral defense cooperation, including joint weapons development.

Japan had established and publicly upheld a policy of not exporting
any weapons because the pacifist Constitution prohibits the country
from using the right of collective self-defense with other countries.

In more recent history, the central government has relaxed the policy
in order to jointly develop weapons with the U.S., given the
ever-increasing development costs of high-tech nuclear weapons and
Japan’s snowballing national debt.

The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to open up
Britain’s nuclear industry to the Japanese nation on his first
official visit to the country, and expressed hope that Japan will
further promote use of civil nuclear energy, despite growing
antinuclear sentiment in Japan over the Fukushima nuclear crisis…..
http://enformable.com/2012/04/uk-and-japanese-agree-to-act-in-unison-on-nuclear-interests/

April 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, UK, weapons and war