Seventy-five years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, Asia is coming back to the centre stage of global nuclear politics as the tensions between the US and China acquire an atomic dimension.
An incipient arms race in Asia in strategic weapons promises to destabilise the security order in the region.
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