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Poll: Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans Don’t Support Using Nuclear Weapons Against North Korea

Poll: Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans Don’t Support Using Nuclear Weapons Against North Korea

Author(s): David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog
Journal Title: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications
Publication Year: 2022

For the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, David M. Allison and CSS’ Stephen Herzog discuss U.S., Japanese, and South Korean public opinion on nuclear use vis-a-vis North Korea. Public support for the retaliatory strikes underpinning the nuclear umbrella is quite low. The publics prefer responses that include a conventional military component.
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