The imminent introduction of nuclear weapons into Australia in US B-52 bombers will carry consequences more profound and immediate than at any point in Australia’s history. But declassified documents reveal it wasn’t always so.
RICHARD TANTER is Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute. He recently published 'Does Pine Gap place Australia at risk of complicity in genocide in Gaza? A complaint concerning the Australian Signals Directorate to the Inspector General of Security and Intelligence', 27 March 2024.
The imminent introduction of nuclear weapons into Australia in US B-52 bombers will carry consequences more profound and immediate than at any point in Australia’s history. But declassified documents reveal it wasn’t always so.