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Brazil Aims for Nuclear Sub Within Decade
Brazil intends to manufacture a submarine powered with an atomic reactor by 2023, Reuters reported on Friday.
The vessel would be sent to sea alongside four new non-nuclear submarines. All are to be built at a newly opened shipyard.
Brazil's then-military government had nuclear arms aspirations that ended in 1990, Reuters reported. The nation stands to join a handful of states with nuclear powered submarines. Nuclear powers China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States possess such vessels, while India intends by 2015 to deploy its first indigenously produced atomic submarine.
"Brazil needs to modernize its national defenses because we have not invested in this for years," according to lawmaker Leonardo Gadelha. "Brazil has one of the longest coastlines in the world and we need submarines to patrol and defend this coast."
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Australia Submarine Capabilities
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The submarine proliferation resource collection is designed to highlight global trends in the sale and acquisition of diesel- and nuclear-powered submarines. It is structured on a country-by-country basis, with each country profile consisting of information on capabilities, imports and exports.
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Brazil
This article provides an overview of Brazil’s historical and current policies relating to nuclear, chemical, biological and missile proliferation.
