Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program @CISACatStanford

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with Siegfried Hecker. Hecker discusses his new book, Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program, in which he describes how North Korea—one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years—progressed from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of likely more than 50 such weapons today. He also touches on how CISAC inspired his work on North Korea and what it was like in that environment to write the book.

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