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Going critical : the first North Korean nuclear crisis / Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman, Robert L. Gallucci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wit, Joel S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--Korea (North).
- Nuclear weapons.
- World politics--20th century.
- World politics.
- Korea (North)--Politics and government.
- Korea (North).
- Korea (North)--Military policy.
- Korea (North)--Foreign relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (495 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this work, three former US officials who played key roles in the 1994 crisis trace the intense efforts that led North Korea to freeze - and pledge to ultimately dismantle - its dangerous plutonium production programme, while avoiding a second Korean War.
- Contents:
- A cornered dog will sometimes bite
- An extremely peculiar nation, March-May 1993
- No sitting president would allow North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons, June-August 1993
- The twilight zone, September-December 1993
- A sea of fire, January-March 1994
- Ending history, April-May 1994
- At the brink, June 3-June 14, 1994
- We liked you starting from then, June 14-30, 1994
- Sailing to an uncertain destination, July-August 1994
- Progress usually comes at the eleventh hour, September-October 1994
- What does not kill me makes me stronger, October 1994-July 1995
- The land of counterpane.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610812936
- 9781280812934
- 1280812931
- 9780815796411
- 0815796412
- OCLC:
- 476016444
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