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Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks

Lasrick (2629253) writes A fascinating account of why China is so worried about Japan's excessive plutonium stocks: combined with its highly sophisticated missile program, "Chinese nuclear-weapons specialists emphasize that Japan has everything technically needed to make nuclear weapons." It turns out that Japan has under-reported a sizable amount of plutonium, and there have been increasing signs that the country might be moving toward re-militarization. This is a particularly worrying read about nuclear tensions in Asia.

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  1. If I had a dollar... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had a dollar for every thing that China is "worried" about, I would be posting this from my own private island.

    Hopefully, not the Senkakus.