Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World sets out to examine one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century: the future of nuclear weapons. Acknowledging the growing consensus that pushing nuclear weapons to the margins of world politics would represent the wisest pol…
North Korea and the Bomb offers the first in-depth history of the biggest diplomatic challenge in the post-Cold War erathe North Korean nuclear program and the U.S. and allied efforts to stop it. Drawing on years of research and dozens of interviews with officials from the major…
Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World sets out to examine one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century: the future of nuclear weapons. Acknowledging the growing consensus that pushing nuclear weapons to the margins of world politics would represent the wisest pol…
Introduction -- Prospects That North Korea Will Engage in Market Reform -- Conventional Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula: Two Scenarios for Analysis -- North Korea Nuclear Doctrine -- Conclusions. This report is a compilation of three papers designed to stimulate discussion a…
North Korean Decisionmaking: Economic Opening, Conventional Deterrence Breakdo…
by National Intelligence Council (U.S.), Harold, Scott, Grossman, Derek, Parachini, John, Gentile, Gian P., Kim, Leah Heejin, Ma, Logan, Mazarr, Michael J., Robinson, Linda, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), Rand Corporation
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This report is a compilation of three papers designed to stimulate discussion among those who are focused on North Korean decisionmaking. The first paper describes the experiences of North Korea and three similar authoritarian regimes-China, Vietnam, and Cuba-and provides a fore…