AUKUS: Is this the start of WWIII?

[Port Caverton]

Would one prefer their superpower next door or across an ocean?

Flawed democracy accross the ocean > Totalitarian goverment next door

[StrayaRoos]

at the time no-ones restarted building Nukes so i say not yet

"Restarted"? Who exactly are you referring to with that statement? The US, UK, China, and Russia have never stopped building/maintaining nuclear weapons since they first had them, so none of them have ever "restarted"...

i thought there was an nuclear treaty stopping nukes from being built

[Lord Dominator]

"Restarted"? Who exactly are you referring to with that statement? The US, UK, China, and Russia have never stopped building/maintaining nuclear weapons since they first had them, so none of them have ever "restarted"...

i thought there was an nuclear treaty stopping nukes from being built

There’s arms reduction treaties (mainly between the US and Russia) & bans on testing, but the former is only about numbers and the latter is irrelevant if you already have nukes (and not really enforceable on the others).

[Novus America]

"Restarted"? Who exactly are you referring to with that statement? The US, UK, China, and Russia have never stopped building/maintaining nuclear weapons since they first had them, so none of them have ever "restarted"...

i thought there was an nuclear treaty stopping nukes from being built

Well the NPT does do not explicitly prohibit the PRC, US, Russia, UK and France from building nuclear weapons and explicitly allows them to have them.
It basically prohibits other places from building or possessing them but several places (India, Pakistan, Israel North Korea) still have nukes in contravention of the treaty and have rejected the treaty. North Korea is the most controversial case as unlike the other three actually joined the treaty then subsequently broke it, the other three never joined it.

Now in theory the NPT calls on the 5 nuclear powers to gradually disarm but that is vague (it has no official date as to when or how, just a vague aspiration that is not likely to ever be achieved). One could certainly argue that the PRC’s massive nuclear build up is against the spirit of the NPT (the other 4 have extensively modernized their nuclear forces but without increasing total number of warheads at least since the late 80s for the Soviets/Russia (who took over the Soviet position in the NPT and the mid 60s for the US which you could also argue is against the spirit but less so as total numbers were decreased from their high points) but the NPT is too vague and nobody has the will to strictly enforce it against the PRC.

[Lord Dominator]

Or the ability to enforce, for various obvious reasons.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

The NPT basically amounts to a declaration that the existing great powers will do whatever they please on the military-security front, but it is an intolerable and destabilising crime for any minor power to try and defend themselves from the great powers.

Heck, would we even be concerned about a Chinese takeover of Taiwan if the Taipei government had them some nuclear IRBMs?

Frankly we’d be better off without that treaty, I reckon.

To paraphrase something I vaguely recall a video game character saying:
“Of course you Americans want a nuclear-free world. Then you can conquer whoever you please with your superiority in conventional arms.”

[Antipatros]

Would one prefer their superpower next door or across an ocean?

Flawed democracy accross the ocean > Totalitarian goverment next door

Flawed is putting it mildly at this point.

[StrayaRoos]

i thought there was an nuclear treaty stopping nukes from being built

There’s arms reduction treaties (mainly between the US and Russia) & bans on testing, but the former is only about numbers and the latter is irrelevant if you already have nukes (and not really enforceable on the others).

Oh,I read that there was an treaty stopping nations from building them

[Trivalve]

There’s arms reduction treaties (mainly between the US and Russia) & bans on testing, but the former is only about numbers and the latter is irrelevant if you already have nukes (and not really enforceable on the others).

Oh,I read that there was an treaty stopping nations from building them

I believe that the treaty is now just a cap on how much can be made, the rule on creation has now literally become a guideline rather then a rule, some countries just don't follow it and no one is stopping them.