New Zealand (NZ) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has declared Australia’s future fleet of nuclear submarines will not be allowed into NZ’s territorial waters. Establishing a nuclear-powered fleet in Australia, the first step of the newly announced trilateral security partnership AUKUS, will see the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States partner with Australia to “significantly deepen cooperation on a range of security and defence capabilities.” Speaking at a press conference on Sept. 16, Ardern said she was pleased to see the UK and the U.S.’s increased engagement in the Pacific because the region is currently being contested, but declared that Australia’s new nuclear subs would not be welcome in Kiwi territory. “New Zealand’s position in relation to the prohibition of nuclear-powered vessels in our waters remains unchanged,” Ardern said. “They couldn’t come into our internal waters. Our legislation means that nothing that is … partially or fully powered by nuclear energy …