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Backgrounder.War On The RocksThe Growing Danger of a U.S. Nuclear First Strike on North Korea Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, and Dr. Nora Bensahel, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, School of International Service, American University. Both also serve as Nonresident Senior Fellows at the Atlantic Council. See alsoNATO’s Expanding Military Exercises Are Sending Risky Mixed Messages Ralph S. Clem | Emeritus Professor of Geography at Florida...

US arms control expert: Hwasong-14 could even reach East Coast, but US anti-missile defenses probably couldn't shoot it down. Pyongyang likely has warhead that fits, he adds. Does NK have a nuclear deterrent?Asia Times‘N. Korean missiles can reach Chicago, would not be stopped’Doug Tsruruoka

Feeling like a deer in the headlights yet? In what we believe is a significant escalation and potentially a hint as to the president's thinking, President Trump said during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the US remains committed to defending its territories and allies using all "diplomatic, conventional and - here's the big one - nuclear - capabilities at our disposal."  This is the first time Trump has explicitly referenced possible involvement of nuclear...

As Sagan and Valentino note, the results speak for themselves. “The main conclusions of these survey experiments are clear,” they write. “The majority of the U.S. public has not internalized either a belief in the nuclear taboo or a strong noncombatant immunity norm. When faced with realistic scenarios in which they are forced to contemplate a trade-off between sacrificing a large number of U.S. troops in combat or deliberately killing even larger numbers of foreign noncombatants, the...