THE GROWING DANGER OF A U.S. NUCLEAR FIRST STRIKE ON NORTH KOREA

DAVID BARNO AND NORA BENSAHEL

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The escalating tensions over North Korea have brought the United States closer to war on the Korean peninsula than at any other time in decades. Yet Washington is just as likely as Pyongyang, if not more likely, to initiate the first strike — and would almost certainly use nuclear weapons to do so. Such a strike may be the only way to decisively end the North Korean nuclear program, but its incalculable effects would extend far beyond the devastation and destruction in Korea.