ABSTRACT
The emergence of environmental security is sometimes referred to as the securitisation of the environment. The environmental security concerns of unintended releases of nuclear material, as Barnett and Dovers rightly argue, are obvious, if not neglected, in the Indian Ocean context. At the end of the Indian Ocean, Australia, on the contrary, has been at the vanguard of anti-nuclear movements in the global theatre, along with the aforementioned Germany. Anti-nuclear movements emerged across the globe in the years subsequent to the bombing of Japan in World War II. This chapter discusses current nuclear issues in the Indian Ocean. Environmental security concerns of waste storage and transport become intermeshed once more with more traditional security concerns of nation-states and their defence. Environmental security issues such as nuclear energy provide human security issues which cross the political boundaries of nation-states, gathering momentum in ecological, geopolitical regions such as the Indian Ocean Region.
