Allan Behm: The seven policy risks with AUKUS
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2023-08-07

There are seven serious policy risks with the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, Allan Behm, the director of The Australia Institute's International & Security Affairs Program told the 2023 Sydney Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day commemoration on August 6. He also estimated that the final cost of the nuclear-powered submarine deal would be closer to a trillion dollars (instead of the $368 billion usually quoted) because the cost of Australia's major weapons acquisitions typically blow out by about 300%.
Video by Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle for Green Left.