Brazil might get nuclear-powered submarines even before Australia
The country has been working on the technology for decades
NUCLEAR SUBMARINES have caught the world’s eye in recent weeks. On September 15th the United States, Australia and Britain announced the AUKUS pact to help Australia build nuclear subs, a military capability so potent that the United States has never shared it with any ally other than Britain. Yet on the other side of the Earth from Perth, where the Australian boats may one day be based, another middle-ranking power has been quietly honing the same technology for far longer.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Underwater atoms”
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