subscribe to our youtube channel and press the bell icon to get the latest updates the global security strategic foreign policy environment is like a universe with a lot of bodies floating into it these bodies are acronyms nato is a good example warsaw pact used to be another one although it wasn't used as a as an acronym but if you see now suddenly many more are coming up we saw the quad come up the quad is actually short not an acronym but quad is short for quadrilateral that is the new alliance or sort of a kind of alliance between india u.s australia and japan for the indo-pacific to share a lot of interest there but an entirely new one has now come up and that will be talked about for a long time so please do get familiar with it that is awkwas SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN that is sort of a clumsily made acronym out of australia united kingdom and the us so august is is an organization that these three countries have now formed these three countries are allies anyway they are already members of what is called as the five eyes alliance that is the five countries that share all their intelligence information the two countries that that are left out of this alliance in this case are canada and new zealand why has this special three country alliance out of a five country alliance been formed also these are countries which already have america's security guarantee they are already tied with america with security guarantees so why one more alliance and why this outcast in fact this name is so awkward by announcing it at the three-way summit meeting between joe biden tony morrison the australian prime minister and boris johnson the british prime minister biden himself said occurs it sounds strange all these acronyms but it's a good one now this is a special or special purpose alliance that these three countries have signed up on with one specific purpose the specific purpose is to enable australia to build nuclear powered submarines remember a nuclear-powered submarine is not the same as a nuclear weapons submarine these are two different categories that's that's when an elementary fact that everybody needs to understand but most people don't the nuclear powered submarine is a submarine where the propulsion system runs on nuclear power it has a nuclear reactor but no nuclear weapons that's called an ssn ss in ssn stands for submersible ship or short form for submarine so ssn submersible ship nuclear run on a nuclear engine or run by a nuclear reactor or nuclear propulsion the other is ssbn ssbn then is literally submersible ship or submarine ballistic nuclear those are the ones those are the big guys who carry nuclear weapons that is something like say ins arihant that india has built those are nuclear powered they have nuclear reactors giving them endless power to go anywhere in the world and to be under water for as long as they wish as long as they have the food available for their crews food and water available for their crews but did ssns don't carry nuclear weapons so once again for clarity australia has been wanting to build now assassins that is nuclear powered submarines and its allies particularly america wants them to build this now the issue with this is that this entails transfer of very very sensitive nuclear reactor technology effectively this also means a transfer of nuclear reactors these are reactors made by rolls-royce british company also bae systems british
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