TY  - JOUR
AB  - Of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, six are located in Asia and another, the United States, borders the Pacific Ocean. Russia and China were the first Asian nations with nuclear weapons, followed by Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Most of the world's nuclear powers are reducing their arsenals or maintaining them at historic levels, but several of those in Asia—India, Pakistan, and North Korea—continue to pursue relentless and expensive programs of nuclear weapons development and production. Hopefully, the nuclear agreement reached in July 2015 between Iran, the European Union, and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council will be a step toward eliminating nuclear weapons throughout Asia and the rest of the world. As we will discuss below, any country possessing a nuclear arsenal is on a path leading toward self-assured destruction, and is a threat to people everywhere on Earth.
AU  - Toon, Owen B.
AU  - Robock, Alan
AU  - Mills, Michael
AU  - Xia, Lili
DB  - Cambridge Core
DO  - DOI: 10.1017/S0021911817000080
DP  - Cambridge University Press
ET  - 2017/05/22
IS  - 2
PB  - Cambridge University Press
PY  - 2017
SN  - 0021-9118
SP  - 437-456
T2  - The Journal of Asian Studies
TI  - Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/article/asia-treads-the-nuclear-path-unaware-that-selfassured-destruction-would-result-from-nuclear-war/2AD2C81CC6E178B010C3CA641B495132
VL  - 76
ER  -