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Are we on the brink of a second Korean War?
By Niall Ferguson (original source Boston Globe)
“Brinkmanship is back — and the world is back on the brink of war.
In the 1950s, the word came to be associated with John Foster Dulles, secretary of state for President Dwight Eisenhower.. But brinkmanship fell into disrepute in the wake of the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises under Eisenhower’s successor. As far as John F. Kennedy was concerned, in those two crises the United States and the Soviet Union had come far too close to jumping over the brink into nuclear Armageddon.”
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