Indo-Pacific nuclear sub threat to rival Cold War

BATAK CENTER FOR OCEANIAN STUDIES -- The Indian and Pacific Oceans are becoming increasingly crowded with nuclear armed and conventional submarines increasing the risk of collision and nuclear conflict.

The warning is contained in a new Lowy Institute of International Affairs paper to be released on Friday which argues the region faces the greatest threat of a miscalculation involving nuclear armed submarines since the Cold War era.

"The regional contests for influence between the United States and China and China and India do not yet have the existential or ideological 'life or death character' of the Cold War," the paper by Professor Rory Medcalf of the ANU based National Security College and Brendan-Thomas Noone from the Lowy International Security Program says.


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