A senior Russian official has issued a stark warning about Japan’s nuclear capabilities, claiming the East Asian nation could assemble atomic weapons in roughly a year. Anton Kobyakov, Executive Secretary of the Eastern Economic Forum Organizing Committee, made the assessment in a recent interview with TASS news agency. He’s not mincing words.
Kobyakov directly linked his concerns to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent foreign policy statements, arguing they signal Japan’s deeper integration into America’s regional military strategy. The timing is no coincidence. Japan sits at the crossroads of mounting pressures from China’s military buildup, North Korea’s expanding nuclear program, and Russia’s territorial claims over the disputed Kuril Islands.
Can a nation that suffered history’s only wartime nuclear s actually go nuclear? Japan maintains strict adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, yet the country’s stockpile of roughly 45 tonnes of plutonium from civilian reactors can’t be ignored. That’s enough material for thousands of warheads if Tokyo ever ced course.
Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi acknowledged in July that nuclear weapons remain a topic Japan “cannot avoid” discussing. The conversation has shifted from taboo to tactical necessity in some circles, reflecting how dramatically the security landscape has transformed across the Pacific Rim.
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