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frey A. Larsen <strong>and</strong> Kerry M. Kartchner, eds., Limited <strong>Nuclear</strong> War
in the 21st Century (forthcoming).
22. See Jonathan Pollock <strong>and</strong> Mitchell B. Reiss, “South Korea:
The Tyranny of Geography <strong>and</strong> the Vexations of History,”
<strong>and</strong> Derek J. Mitchell, “Taiwan’s Hsin Chu <strong>Program</strong>: Deterrence,
Ab<strong>and</strong>onment, <strong>and</strong> Honor,” both in Kurt M. Campbell et al., eds.,
The <strong>Nuclear</strong> Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their <strong>Nuclear</strong>
Choices, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004, pp.
254-313. For discussion of the “Guam Doctrine,” see Henry A.
Kissinger, White House Years, Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co.,
1979, pp. 222-225.
23. See President George H. W. Bush, “Address to the Nation
on Reducing U.S. <strong>and</strong> Soviet <strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Weapons</strong>,” in Jeffrey A.
Larsen <strong>and</strong> Kurt J. Klingenberger, eds., Controlling Non-Strategic
<strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Weapons</strong>: Obstacles <strong>and</strong> Opportunities, Colorado Springs,
CO: U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies, 2001,
p. 275. For the withdrawal of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from
South Korea, see USCINCPAC Comm<strong>and</strong> History, Vol. I, 1991, pp.
91-92, available from www.nukestrat.com/korea/CINCPAC91p90-93.
<strong>pdf</strong>. The decision to withdraw all nuclear weapons from South Korea
due to the collapse of the Soviet Union suggests how limited
their role had become by the late 1980s in defense of the Republic
of Korea (ROK) from a purely North Korean attack.
24. For a similar view, see Muthiah Alagappa, “Introduction:
Investigating <strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Weapons</strong> in a New Era,” in Muthiah Alagappa,
ed., The Long Shadow: <strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Weapons</strong> <strong>and</strong> Security in 21st
Century Asia, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008, pp.
23-25.
25. U.S. Department of Defense, <strong>Nuclear</strong> Posture Review Report,
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, April 2010, pp. viiix.
26. See Monitor 360 Report, “Findings from SME Crowdsourcing
in East Asia,” Report prepared for the Concepts <strong>and</strong>
Analysis of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Strategy (CANS) effort, June 1, 2011, p. 41.
27. Ibid., pp. 15-16.
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