IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has been informed by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of an 18-month trilateral effort between these three countries “to identify the optimal pathway to support Australia’s acquisition of a conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine capability for the Royal Australian Navy”. The trilateral effort was announced in a joint statement on 15 September by Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States of America. The ... (full story)