• Old “MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)” is no longer a viable strategy.
• We are in the era of “global inter-dependence” where any nuclear attack on anywhere can have devastating impacts on global community.
• In Asia, cold-war mentality may still remain, while, in reality, we are also inter-dependent.
• Therefore, we propose a new security concept of “Asian Mutually Assured Dependence Concept” on which our proposal is based.

Objectives

• To propose a concrete policy recommendations for new Japanese government

• Aims to establish “an Asia without nuclear weapons” through a transition from security based on military power to security based on a framework of mutual dependency.