Going critical : the first North Korean nuclear crisis / Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman, Robert L. Gallucci.

Author
Wit, Joel S. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 474 pages) : illustrations

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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
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.
ISBN
  • 0815796412 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780815796411 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0815793863
  • 9780815793861
  • 9786610812936
  • 6610812934
OCLC
55942342
International Article Number
  • 9780815793861
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