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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Australia must lobby US for ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons, says ex-minister Gareth Evans

An American nuclear-capable ~B-52 bomber at Cheongju airport in South Korea.
A US nuclear-capable B-52 bomber at Cheongju airport in South Korea. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images

Labor luminary and former foreign minister, Gareth Evans has urged Australia to lobby the US to promise “no first use” of nuclear weapons, warning that global arms control agreements “are now either dead or on life support”.

Evans says that in the wake of sealing the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine deal, the Albanese government should give “some comfort to ALP members and voters that we are really serious about nuclear arms control”.

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