The Australian National University in Canberra has won a $570,000 grant to research the impact of new submarine detection technologies on nuclear arms programmes in Asia.
The grant is one of eight awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from a field of more than 50 applicants worldwide. The grants are part of a $US 3 million research programme to address the threats posed by proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Other recipients include the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the University of California Berkeley and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London.