Fascinating inside details about the development of the AUKUS deal (part 1)… 1/5 smh.com.au
Particularly interesting that dependence on the French for refueling LEU reactors every decade was a political non-starter 2/5
“it had been a 40-year fantasy of Australian governments to get American nuclear propulsion. Canberra had been turned down every time. Indeed, no earlier request had even reached the president’s desk. The US Nuclear Navy…had ruled it out of the question.” 3/5
Kurt Campbell: “What most countries do when grappling with relevance, when risks and costs are enormous, is they just opt out. Australia chose relevance. [It was] a bold and important idea”. 4/5
Also, Naval Group’s predecessor was founded by “Cardinal Richelieu, who, incidentally, was the inventor of the table knife.” 5/5
Looking forward part 2 of this…
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