The six-reactor complex,Europe’s biggest nuclear plant,has been under occupation since shortly after Moscow’s forces invaded in February last year.
Russia has acted on a promise to send nuclear weapons to its ally and neighbour,after President Vladimir Putin announced the plan on state television in March.
The Australian protest ketch Warana,flying the flags of four nations,sailed from Williamstown on an 11,000-mile mission to try to halt the French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll.
Labor’s national platform commits the party to ratifying an anti-nuclear weapons treaty,but it would aggravate the US and launch a new era in security policy.
The former Labor cabinet minister and Midnight Oil frontman delivered a withering critique of Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
President Vladimir Putin also announced that Russia was suspending,but not abandoning,a nuclear-arms reduction treaty with the United States.
The Australian public would never be informed whether such aircraft are carrying nuclear weapons or not under the so-called US policy of “warhead ambiguity”.
If New START is terminated or allowed to expire,the nuclear arsenals of the world’s two largest nuclear powers would have no treaty-based limitation for the first time since the 1970s.
Meanwhile,South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol called for “solid mental readiness and practical training” to ensure any North Korean provocations will be met with retaliation.
Australia’s physicists say we must invest in training a new generation of nuclear experts,but their colleagues in environmental science warn it could heighten regional fears of an arms race.
The country’s “ultimate goal is to possess the world’s most powerful strategic force,the absolute force unprecedented in the century,” Kim said.