Preface for J-PAND Supplement Issue: Project on Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia (NU-NEA)

This supplement issue of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament presents the papers commissioned in 2021 to support Project on Reducing Risk Weapons Use Northeast Asia (NU-NEA). The NU-NEA project was developed study risk contours conflict terrain war nuclear escalation around Korean peninsula. is being carried out part by developing a set plausible “use cases” weapons NEA, that is, cases which combination deployments, political, economic, or other circumstances region and/or internationally, specific “triggering events” lead state non-state actor detonate weapon (“first use”), followed evolution its ultimate consequences. informed use case preparation were prepared group authors from many nations backgrounds, spanning topics history division ROK DPRK military strategy, ballistic missile inventories capabilities, counterforce issues, others. have been not suggest probable outcomes, but identify outcomes so policies can be devised implemented avoid any weapons, with goal “let Nagasaki last”.