How Korea's Web Got So Tangled
By Vice Admiral Jerry Miller, U.S. Navy (Retired)
The instability that still exists on the Korean peninsula can be traced to a woeful diplomatic neglect of it as an issue. No one even mentioned Korea during the 1945 conference at Potsdam among the new "Big Three"—(left to right) British Prime Minister Clement Atlee, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Failure to address its disposition was a costly oversight.
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Vice Admiral Miller, "in one way or another," he says, "was intimately involved in the Korean War from the first to the last day." He is the author of Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers: How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), and his most recent article for Naval History, "How We Targeted the Nukes," appeared in the February 2002 issue.
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