Japanese prolif is worse than North Korean prolif

1. it's faster and more advanced

Hunt 15 [Jonathan Hunt (Post-Doctoral Fellow @ Stanton Nuclear Security

Program, fellow @ Center for International Security and Cooperation at
Stanford University, Visiting Professor @ Emory University), Out of the
Mushroom Clouds Shadow, Foreign Policy, 8/5/15,
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/05/japans-nuclear-obsession-hiroshimanagasaki/]
if Tokyo invoked North Koreas nuclear arsenal to withdraw from the NPT ,
it could build its own in short order. It has a
growing defense industry recently freed from export restrictions,
mastery over missile technology thanks to its space program, and a
reprocessing facility capable of producing enough weapons-useable
plutonium to fuel more than 1000 bombs like the one that leveled Nagasaki. Indeed,
if Japan wanted to, it could probably develop basic explosives in less
than a year and a sophisticated arsenal in three to five years. Faced with an
existential crisis, however, those numbers would plummet, as Tokyo fast-tracked
a national undertaking. For all of these reasons, Washington needs Tokyo to play a more active
And

which has a 90-day waiting period,

role in regional security. The bilateral Extended Deterrence Dialogue formalized mid-level consultations in
2010; the meetings should expand to include South Korea trilateral coordination is overdue. The United
States should continue urging Japan to invest more on conventional forces. For decades, Japanese military
spending has hovered around 1 percent of gross domestic product. Even a half-percent increase would
help offset smaller U.S. defense budgets, reducing scenarios where U.S. nuclear forces would have to be

Hibakusha
have educated Japan and humanity about the lifelong harm that nuclear
weapons can inflict. Their advancing age is representative of the
generational changes facing Japan, however, with profound implications for
its foreign policies. As Japan assumes a more active security role in East Asia,
it may be tempted to rethink its nuclear options. With some experts promoting tailored
proliferation to U.S. allies to counter Chinas rise, U.S.-Japanese efforts to reduce nuclear
risks regionally and worldwide appear increasingly in jeopardy. The shadow of
called on and increasing the credibility of U.S. deterrent threats in East Asia as a result.

American power still looms over Japan 70 years after two artificial suns rose over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The nuclear partnership with Washington has afforded Tokyo the security necessary to renounce nuclear

With Japans nuclear restraint no longer the

article of faith it once was, the significance of the nuclear pacts struck decades
ago will become ever more consequential.
weapons and champion a world without them.