On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War Audiobook (Free)

In 2017, the world watched as Chief executive Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean protection expert Van Jackson traces the roots of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold Battle era, and clarifies the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended. Grounded in security studies and educated analysis of the US response to North Korea’s increasing nuclear threat, Trump’s aggressive rhetoric is certainly analysed in the framework of prior US plan failures, the geopolitics of East Asia, North Korean tactical culture as well as the acceleration of its nuclear programme. Jackson argues the fact that Trump administration’s plan of ‘optimum pressure’ brought the world much closer to inadvertent nuclear war than many realise – and charts a program for preventing future conflicts.