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While it is true that we once wanted nukes, Australia was a very different nation back then. We were fundamentally a racist state, in which Indiginous people couldn't vote and anyone who wasn't of European ancestry wasn't allowed entry.
We were paranoid about communism (Who wasn't in the West?) and we figured that nukes would be a good way to fight of the "Communist Asian masses" that we were so certain would attack us.
Now of course we know better and I doubt that we have any serious plans to produce nuclear weapons. If anything we have the reactor as a fall back in case there is a regional arms race, say between the USA and China.
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