Squassoni, Sharon 2003: North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: How Soon an Arsenal? (Updated July 29, 2003), (CRS Report RS 21391), Washington: CRS for CongressSquassoni, Sharon. 2003. North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: How Soon an Arsenal? Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service. 29 ...
This is why the world's governments are trying to control the spread of nuclear-bomb-making technology and materials and reduce the arsenal of nuclear weapons deployed during the Cold War. It's also why nuclear tests conducted by North Korea and other countries draw such a strong response ...
The current crisis erupted when Pyongyang admitted it had a separate program to develop a nuclear bomb based on uranium. This violated the 1994 Agreed Framework with the US, which was designed to freeze North Korea's program. Can their missiles reach the United States? Not yet. The North has...
How much deterrence is enough for the use of nuclear weapons? Is there any consensus? How did the second world war develop from a European conflict to a global war? After the Japanese invasion of China in 1931, why did Chinese peasants tend to s...
north korean hacking campaigns are huge; the united nations estimated the total haul at $2 billion, a large sum for a country with a gross domestic product of only about $28 billion. as north korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, cyberoperations help...
Early in 2005, North Korea claimed possession of nuclear weapons as a precautionary measure against “hostile” U.S. forces. Worldwide, citizens continued protesting the Iraq War—including more than 150,000 people who took to the streets of Washington D.C. In December, Secretary of Defense Do...
weapons by 2012 [source:OPCW]. But there are enough routes around the treaties. States like North Korea didn't sign them. And signatories may have undeclared weapons. Before they are actually destroyed, weapons marked for disposal could also be stolen or sold. Still, as of December 2008, ...
weapons by 2012 [source:OPCW]. But there are enough routes around the treaties. States like North Korea didn't sign them. And signatories may have undeclared weapons. Before they are actually destroyed, weapons marked for disposal could also be stolen or sold. Still, as of December 2008, ...
Reagan also insisted that if a successful defense against nuclear weapons existed, there would be no need for nuclear weapons in the first place. After all, why waste money building and maintaining a mountain of missiles if they would only be destroyed the minute they were launched? In the ...
“So we go on and don't do it, and let the war go on. Over a period of 3 and a half or four years, we did burn down every town in North Korea. And every town in South Korea. And what? Killed off 20 percent of the Korean population. What I'm trying to say is, once you...