By Ron Huisken*
In a world largely inured to shocks, the announcement that Australia, in partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom, would acquire nuclear-powered submarines was a bombshell. We haven’t over-egged this development—it was dramatic. It was made possible because the US and the UK — especially the US — agreed to share one of their most precious packages, the technologies that have made their submarines the quietest in the world for decades.
