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North Korean disarmament: build technology and trust

Researchers must improve ways to verify weapons declarations and collaborate on nuclear power, argues R. Scott Kemp.
  1. R. Scott Kemp

    1. R. Scott Kemp is associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy in Cambridge. In 2010 and 2011, he served as science adviser in the US State Department’s Office of the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control.

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There’s a lesson to take from the speed with which the US–North Korean dialogue has oscillated between thinly veiled threats of nuclear annihilation and the promise of cooperation: that constructive dialogue between nations is never more than a political decision away. Openings can come quickly; when they do, it pays to be prepared.

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Nature 558, 367-369 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05383-8

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