...Darren C.Zook Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 Darren C. Zook teaches South A sian history a n d politics a t the University o f California a t Berkeley. A Culture of Deterrence Nuclear Myths and Cultural Chauvinism in South Asia Darren C...

... Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, which won a N ation al Book Aw ard, an d Who Owns Death? Illusions of the Second Nuclear Age Robert J a y Lifton By a perverse paradox, even though the dan­ was first the sea of death one encountered at ger of a nuclear calamity...

...Jim Wurst; John Burroughs Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 Jim Wurst is the program director o f the Lawyers’ Committee on N uclear Policy. Joh n Burroughs is the organization’s executive director an d the author o f T he Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide...

...Ray Takeyh Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 Ray Takeyh teaches a t the N ational Defense University, where he is director of studies of the Near E ast and South A sia Center. The views expressed here are the author’s own. Iran’s Nuclear Calculations...

...William D. Hartung Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow and director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute. Prevention, Not Intervention Curbing the N ew Nuclear Threat...

...). This article is based on a year-long investigation that has taken him to Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Gas and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia Pipelines, Regional Stability, and the Korean Nuclear Crisis Selig S. Harrison The enormous potential of...

...Chelsea Szendi Schieder Chelsea Szendi Schieder, a political scientist at Tokyo’s Meiji University, describes how, in the wake of Japan’s triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown), the country has moved to fortify national harmony and women’s place in the traditional family unit...

... wanted—a further freeze on nuclear arms and instead go for the more demanding course of arms reductions, which badly upset Moscow. At the same time he was the only one in the foreign policy apparatus with a vision of where America should lead the world. He was the philosopher king of the White House...

... tsunami wall at a nuclear plant south of Tokyo is nearly 50 feet high and stretches a mile long. It is only one of a host of other earthquake and tsunami refits—waterproofing some of the most vital areas of the plant, backing up cooling systems, and improving venting for the facility in the event of...

... states.” They are much less relevant to “irra­ The Strategy of Conflict tional” opponents, who were set aside in the old debates but seem far more important For four decades, avoiding nuclear war was, now in the persona of terrorist groups...

...Robert M. Hathaway Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies , Cha Victor D. Kang David C. , New York : Columbia University Press , 2003 Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea , O’Hanlon Michael Mochizuki Mike , New York...

... the Korean Fears of U.S. airpower are reinforced by a rec­ War, North Korea can no longer count on ognition that the United States maintains the military support of its former allies. The nuclear-armed submarines in the Pacific. Al­ last Chinese soldier left the North in 1958. though President...

... Gromyko compounded Moscow’s offense by failing to acknowledge the deed at a meeting with Kennedy just before the crisis. But when the United States blockaded the is­ land, and when the nuclear superpowers wrestled in the fog, Khrushchev was as responsibly aware as Kennedy of the spiraling risks...