TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson, Van,
TI  - On the brink: Trump, Kim, and the threat of nuclear war 
SN  - 9781108473484
AV  - E183.8.K7 J327 2019
U1  - 327.7305193 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : 
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Trump, Donald,
KW  - Kim, Chŏng-ŭn,
KW  - Kim, Chong-un,
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Korea (North)
KW  - Testing
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Nuclear warfare
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Military policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Ch. 1: introduction -- Ch. 2: the inheritance of Donald Trump and Kim Ong un in Korea -- Ch. 3: North Korean strategic thought and the risks of nuclear war -- Ch. 4: the obama era: from engagement to deterrence -- Ch. 5: history's hinge point: the Clinton counterfactual -- Ch. 6: president trump and the maximum pressure strategy -- Ch. 7: mimicking Pyongyang -- Ch. 8: on the brink of nuclear war -- Ch. 9: when will the war break out? -- Ch. 10: how the crisis ended -- Ch. 11: the risks of nuclear war -- Reference
N2  - In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War era, and explains the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended. Grounded in security studies and informed analysis of the US response to North Korea's increasing nuclear threat, Trump's aggressive rhetoric is analysed in the context of prior US policy failures, the geopolitics of East Asia, North Korean strategic culture and the acceleration of its nuclear programme. Jackson argues that the Trump administration's policy of 'maximum pressure' brought the world much closer to inadvertent nuclear war than many realise - and charts a course for the prevention of future conflicts
ER  -