title: Nuclear balances and the challenge of advanced conventional weapons in Asia
abstract: Continues on next page Summer 2017/18 Asia is the world's only site, and Japan the only victim, of the use of nuclear weapons in war.The Indian subcontinent and the Korean peninsula are also two of the least unlikely theatres of a nuclear war, while a direct China-US confrontation from an escalation spiral starting in the South China seas is also possible.
journal: ANU Open Research (Australian National University)