TY - BOOK ID - 67215395 TI - On the brink : Trump, Kim, and the threat of nuclear war PY - 2019 SN - 9781108473484 1108473482 9781108562225 9781108461719 1108699731 1108562221 1108584616 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Testing KW - Trump, Donald, KW - Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, KW - United States KW - Korea (North) KW - Foreign relations KW - Military policy KW - Nuclear warfare KW - Atomic warfare KW - CBR warfare KW - Nuclear strategy KW - Nuclear war KW - Thermonuclear warfare KW - War KW - Nuclear crisis control KW - Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, KW - 김 정은, KW - Kim, Jong-un, KW - Kim, Jong-eun, KW - Kimu, Jon'un, KW - 金 正恩, KW - 金正恩, KW - Trump, Donald J., KW - Tramp, Donalʹd, KW - Трамп, Дональд, KW - 川普唐納德, KW - The Donald, KW - Donald, KW - Trump, Donald John, KW - Nuclear weapons - Korea (North) KW - Nuclear weapons - Korea (North) - Testing KW - Trump, Donald, - 1946 KW - -Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, - 1984 KW - -United States - Foreign relations - Korea (North) KW - Korea (North) - Foreign relations - United States KW - Korea (North) - Military policy KW - -United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67215395 AB - 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 -