Essays & reportage
Nuclear Australia: an on-again, off-again history
Jessica Urwin
11 April 2025
Is Peter Dutton’s energy plan going the way of a succession of nuclear pushes?
Essays & reportage
Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the Australian’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
International
The feckless four
Nic Maclellan
2 February 2024
What do governments led by Rishi Sunak, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and Kim Jong-un have in common?
National affairs
No time to waste
Jessica Urwin
18 August 2023
The defeat of the latest in a series of nuclear waste plans signals the need for a fresh approach
International
Water, water everywhere
Nic Maclellan
20 December 2022
Scientists and Pacific governments are worried by Japan’s plan to dump radioactive wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean
International
AUKUS disrupts “a very peaceful part of planet Earth”
Nic Maclellan
14 October 2021
With anti-nuclear sentiment on the rise across the islands, the Morrison government’s nuclear submarine ambitions have undercut the prime minister’s claim to be part of the…
National affairs
Going nuclear
Nicholas Stuart
23 September 2021
The AUKUS alliance represents a dramatic step away from multilateral diplomacy. Or is it a first step towards an independent nuclear deterrent?
National affairs
Signing up
Hamish McDonald
19 September 2021
Has Australia committed itself to going to war over Taiwan? (And other awkward questions about this week’s submarine switch)
International
Macron, memory and Moruroa
Nic Maclellan
21 July 2021
The French president won’t be able to avoid the legacies of nuclear testing when he visits Tahiti this week
International
Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship enters a new phase
John Tilemann
9 May 2018
Just weeks before his meeting with Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement. What is likely to happen next?
International
Testing times over the Pacific
Nic Maclellan
27 September 2017
North Korea’s threat to detonate a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean echoes the US nuclear missile tests of the early 1960s. As this extract from Nic Maclellan’s new book…
National affairs
Remember the nuclear renaissance? Well, it’s over
John Quiggin
4 August 2017
After a three-decade gap, George W. Bush initiated a new phase of nuclear reactor construction in 2002. Then economic reality got in the way
International
Britain’s uneasy relationship with international weapons law
Nic Maclellan
14 June 2017
As non-nuclear states meet to negotiate a nuclear weapons ban treaty, Britain has withdrawn from the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice over nuclear…
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