Suspects with form: Security implications of Australian and Indonesia nuclear developments for state and civil society Richard Tanter Nautilus Institute

Suspects with form: outline 1.Return of the repressed 2.Nuclear power planning: –Australia –Indonesia 3.Nuclear weapons records and motivations: –Australia –Indonesia 4. Contexts, national, bilateral and global 5. Role of fantasy 6. States and civil society in de-escalation of fantasy and reality 7. Nautilus Institute programs: –Civil society nuclear early warning program –Re-framing Australia-Indonesia security relations

Hymans on Australian nuclear proliferation and identity Theory: degree of threat and capacity for self- help explains proliferation decisions, but only through variable of perception: i.e. shifting national identities History: Menzies: “oppositional but not nationalist” [Tanter: = “oppositional niche imperial] Gorton: “oppositional nationalist” Whitlam: non-oppositional nationalist

Walsh on Australian proliferation explanations: bureaucratic politics Problem: neither motivation nor capacity explain the key period: Better candidates: perceptions of nuclear weapons, leadership shifts, and most importantly bureaucratic politics. “a contest between two powerful coalitions”: Pro: the military and the civilian nuclear establishment Con: Dept of External Affairs and Treasury

Existing research reactors

Planned nuclear power reactor sites

Planned reactors, as of mid-2007

Gunung Muria peninsula sites

Tectonic zones and tsunami hazards ‘

Contamination map, based on Chernobyl model, Schlapfer, 1996

More serious study: An Analysis and Visualization of the Risk Associated with the Potential Failure of Indonesian Nuclear Reactors, John Taylor and Drew Whitehouse, ANU, hn_taylor/