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You are here: Home / Press Room / Op-ed: Seven Reasons Why Putting U.S. Nukes Back in South Korea Is a Terrible Idea

October 12, 2017

Op-ed: Seven Reasons Why Putting U.S. Nukes Back in South Korea Is a Terrible Idea

Szilard Advisory Board Member Jon Wolfsthal co-penned an op-ed in Foreign Policy on reasons why the United States should not deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea. 

South Korean officials announced last month that the United States would begin to routinely deploy strategic assets on the Korean Peninsula to help deter North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. The South Korean demand for tangible signals of America’s defense commitment is unlikely to stop there, and prominent South Korean politicians are publicly pushing for the United States to return nuclear weapons to the peninsula. Some American politicians, like Sen. John McCain, have made similar suggestions.

If there were real military or political benefits to redeploying nuclear weapons in South Korea, this idea would be worth a serious review, but redeploying them today makes no sense, and indeed could exacerbate the current crisis over North Korea’s nuclear threats.

Here are seven reasons why the United States should not seek to deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea.

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