AVOIDING MELTDOWNS + BLACKOUTS - CONFIDENCE-BUILDING IN INTER-KOREAN ENGAGEMENT ON NUCLEAR SAFETY AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

xii INTRODUCTION Nuclear Energy on the Korean Peninsula: A Way towards the Future? NUCLEAR ENERGY & SAFETY ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA While the first section of the volume analyzes historical examples, contextualize the question of nuclear energy on the Korean Peninsula, the second half of the volume explores forward-leaning policy opportunities for energy and safety between the two Koreas. [...] Although, the president of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, helped to end the putsch three days later and restored Gorbachev to power, Gorbachev had apparently been relieved of the possession of the nuclear suitcase, the launch codes for the Soviet nuclear arsenal. [...] The nuclear threat had changed from nuclear weapons in the hands of the Soviet government to nuclear weapons and other nuclear assets getting out of the control of Russia and other successor-state governments. [...] The legislation also warned of the threat of the potential seizure, theft, sale or use of nuclear weapons and components, and the threat of proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials, technologies, and know-how. [...] The CTR program emphasized from the beginning that the objective was not to disarm Russia but rather to help it mitigate the dangers resulting from the Soviet breakup and the economic collapse of Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union.