VIDEO: Risk of a miscalculation triggering nuclear attack – the North Korean situation
VIDEO Minor flare up could trigger nuclear response, warns expert BY:THE AUSTRALIAN, IAN MCPHEDRAN, NATIONAL DEFENCE REPORTER WITH AGENCIES
- Main risk is a miscalculation or a scenario where the wrong button is pushed
- Experts say a rapid escalation in hostilities is also possible
- How it unfolded: Tensions rise on Korean peninsula
THE key risk on the Korean peninsula is a miscalculation or the ”Dr Strangelove scenario” where a crazy North Korean general pushes the wrong button, according to a strategic expert.
Professor Hugh White from the Australian National University said the regime in Pyongyang would be in no doubt that a nuclear strike against the US or its allies would generate a rapid and disproportionate nuclear response from Washington.
He said the main threat was a miscalculation or a rapid escalation in hostilities following a minor military incident such as an artillery strike.
”At least we don’t face the Cold War situation where any launch would trigger a massive nuclear response by the other side,” Professor White said.
During the 1950s and 60s that strategy was known by the acronym MAD – mutually assured destruction…… http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/minor-flare-up-could-trigger-nuclear-response-warns-expert/story-e6frg6n6-1226619515907
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