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Nature 423, 110-111 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423110a

Weapons proliferation: Asia's nuclear family

David Cyranoski & Geoff Brumfiel

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If North Korea has nuclear weapons, its neighbours may want to develop their own. Geoff Brumfiel and David Cyranoski ask whether Japanese and South Korean scientists would answer a call to nuclear arms.

Hirotaka Sugawara has an unlikely proposal. One of Japan's most prominent high-energy physicists, he has spent his working life studying sub-atomic particles.