Nope that's how ik you're uneducated on the subject. First you need to enrich uranium to a high degree much greater than the use in civilian reactors and nations like Canada and Japan who are experts in nuclear technology themselves would need to upgrade existing infrastructure. Australia would have to build it from scratch. Australian news spoke to an expert who laid out the steps and estimated it would take several years. Australia is certainly latent but it's not anywhere near enough time to save itself in the event of a war.
How could Australia develop nukes?
Author Hugh White and Chernobyl-mania have put nuclear weapons are back in the spotlight. Could nukes really be in our future?www.crikey.com.au
Yes, nuclear power is banned by federal legislation but we still have low grade reactors. We have been doing nuclear weapons testing for over half a century paid by our taxpayers. Our defence department continually hires nuclear scientists and our National University has a school dedicated to nuclear science.
It is very typical to get your average article that does the rounds in Australian media fear mongering about our lack of nuclear latency.
