Communist China is engaged in a massive nuclear proliferation program. China at present has an estimated 410 nuclear warheads as of January 2023, an increase of around 60 warheads from 2022. However, China’s nuclear proliferation program is now underway, and the U.S. Department of Defense has projected that China could possess around 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035. Yet recently China has objected strongly to the AUKUS agreement between the US, UK and Australia, where it seems that Australia acquiring nuclear submarines would give this country a nuclear capacity. For China that is nuclear proliferation. Talk about hypocrisy, but that is how they play the game. As climate princess Great would say: “how dare you”!
Australia needs to acquire full nuclear weapon capacity, and should have done this instead of the populate or perish mania of the post-World War II era, since what counts today in warfare is technology, not grunters, especially in an age of AI and robotics.