Successive prime ministers had toyed with the nuclear option, only to discard it when the presumed benefits were weighed against the very real post-nuclear dangers.
In short, the post-nuclear recoil carries risks of its own.
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In post-Fukushima Japan, nuclear power would be a much more emotive issue.
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And as Economics Minister, Maehara knows this, and also knows he will get tangled in the skewed politics of nuclear in post-Fukushima Japan.
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Nomura forecast domestic confidence to improve, providing reconstruction post-quake and the TEPCO nuclear power plant recovery go well, within three to six months.
But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.
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The post-Fukushima kneejerk decision to close all nuclear plants by 2022 rather than 2036 has wreaked havoc in Europe ever since.
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As notable is the assent of retired Air Force General Lee Butler, former head of the Strategic Air Command, who underwent a very public post-service revulsion against America's nuclear strategy.
The lead discussant for the Roundtable's first session, concerning "Why Nuclear Weapons Matter in the Post-Cold War World, " was Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ).
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They reportedly approached Hitachi, knowing that Hitachi is desperate to find projects for its nuclear plant business as the post-Fukushima disaster Japan home market seems in terminal decline.
They include anyone who uses alternative medicine, or who buys organic food, or worries about genetic modification, or opposes nuclear power, or likes post-modernism, or doesn't vaccinate their children properly, or distrusts scientists, or believes the Bible, or dislikes global capitalism or thinks that human progress damages the environment.
Until, that is, even he and the man who signed the treaty for the United States, Richard Nixon, publicly acknowledged in the 1990s that such deliberate vulnerability made no sense in the post-Cold War world with its proliferating missiles and nuclear programs.
With the Japanese government fully occupied with post-earthquake and tsunami efforts, including explosions at several nuclear power plants that have become an urgent worry, this self-organization is timely.
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