Rewarding nonproliferation: The South and North Korean cases

Abstract

Personally I am haunted by the feeling that, unless we are successful, by 1970 there may be ten nuclear powers instead of four, and by 1975, fifteen or twenty.... I see the possibility in the 1970s of a President of the United States having to face a world in which fifteen or twenty or twenty-five nations may have these weapons. I regard that as the greatest possible danger and hazard. John Kennedy, 1962