Hinge Points: An inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program

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1 See the two-volume book, Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers, edited by S. Hecker. (Los Alamos, New Mexico: Bathtub Row Press, 2016) https://www.losalamoshistory.org/store/p265/Doomed_to_Cooperate.html.

2 Eben Harrell and David E. Hoffman, Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-Year Mission to Secure a Dangerous Legacy of Soviet Nuclear Testing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center, 2013) https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/08-17-13/plutonium_mountain-web.pdf.

3 Clifton B. Parker, “John Lewis, Stanford Political Scientist and Groundbreaking Asian Politics Expert, Dies at 86,” Stanford News, September 7, 2017, https://news.stanford.edu/2017/09/07/stanford-political-scientist-john-lewis-dies-86/.

4 Amanda Erikson, “The Last Time the U.S. Was ‘on the Brink of War’ With North Korea,” Washington Post, August 9, 2017.

5 Kelsey Davenport, “The U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework at a Glance, Fact Sheets and Briefs,” Arms Control Association, February 2022, https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/agreedframework.

6 Kelsey Davenport, “The Six-Party Talks at a Glance, Fact Sheets and Briefs,” Arms Control Association, January 2022, https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/6partytalks.

7 Light water is ordinary water labeled to distinguish it from the “heavy” water used in a class of reactors developed by Canada.

8 Christopher Lawrence, “Normalization by Other Means—Technological Infrastructure and Political Commitment in the North Korean Nuclear Crisis,” International Security 45 (2020): 9–50.

9 Joseph Yun and Frank Aum, “A Practical Approach to North Korea for the Next US President,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 2, 2020.