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North Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this
country—one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy
cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30
years—progress from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening
arsenal of perhaps 50 such weapons in 2021? Hinge Points brings
readers literally inside the North Korean nuclear program, joining
Siegfried Hecker to see what he saw and hear what he heard in his
visits to North Korea from 2004 to 2010. Hecker goes beyond the
technical details—described in plain English from his
on-the-ground experience at the North's nuclear center at
Yongbyon—to put the nuclear program exactly where it belongs, in
the context of decades of fateful foreign policy decisions in
Pyongyang and Washington. Describing these decisions as "hinge
points," he traces the consequences of opportunities missed by both
sides. The result has been that successive U.S. administrations
have been unable to prevent the North, with the weakest of hands,
from becoming one of only three countries in the world that might
target the United States with nuclear weapons. Hecker's unique
ability to marry the technical with the diplomatic is well informed
by his interactions with North Korean and U.S. officials over many
years, while his years of working with Russian, Chinese, Indian,
and Pakistani nuclear officials have given him an unmatched breadth
of experience from which to view and interpret the thinking and
perspective of the North Koreans.
It is only with the ending of the Cold War that the issue of
environmental hazards at many former nuclear testing sites around
the world has attracted international scientific interest. This
book discusses the environmental, ecological, and health problems
associated with nuclear testing. Topics treated include dose
assessment, risk, speciation and transport of radionuclides,
measurement and separation of radionuclides, and remedial options.
The nuclear test sites examined include the Semipalatinsk Nuclear
Test Site (Kazakhstan), the Nevada test Site (USA), the Pacific
atolls, and the Maralinga Test Site (Australia). The volume also
discusses the additional release sites of Chelyabinsk (Russia),
Chernobyl (Ukraine), Palomares (Spain), Los Alamos (USA), and
others. A valuable compendium of radiological problems for a wide
spectrum of readers, from non-specialist to expert.
It is only with the ending of the Cold War that the issue of
environmental hazards at many former nuclear testing sites around
the world has attracted international scientific interest. This
book discusses the environmental, ecological, and health problems
associated with nuclear testing. Topics treated include dose
assessment, risk, speciation and transport of radionuclides,
measurement and separation of radionuclides, and remedial options.
The nuclear test sites examined include the Semipalatinsk Nuclear
Test Site (Kazakhstan), the Nevada test Site (USA), the Pacific
atolls, and the Maralinga Test Site (Australia). The volume also
discusses the additional release sites of Chelyabinsk (Russia),
Chernobyl (Ukraine), Palomares (Spain), Los Alamos (USA), and
others. A valuable compendium of radiological problems for a wide
spectrum of readers, from non-specialist to expert.
This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with
unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how
the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the
various key policy challenges it faces. This will be accomplished
through the extensive experience of the authors-Korean, European,
and American-in North Korea and with North Koreans. There is no
substitute for such direct experience in order to address the
numerous myths and misconceptions that have grown up and persisted
over the years about how the North functions, and how it perceives
the world. Moreover, the usual focus on a single issue-for example,
just nuclear or just economic matters-fails to provide a sense of
how important the inter-relationship of these separate parts is in
understanding the whole. The experience brought to bear in the book
and the breadth of coverage provides badly needed, critical
insights about North Korea at time when policy in Seoul and
Washington toward the North is at a crucial hinge point.
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