Kernenergie en veiligheid: A wargame sought to test if a major radiological release that would prompt the evacuation of millions of civilians in South Korea could distract key US allies from assisting and rebuffing an all-out military invasion of Taiwan. The short answer was yes.
The game originally presumed that China, wanting to keep the United States, South Korea, and Japan out of a fight over Taiwan, would ask North Korea to strike the Kori nuclear power plant in South Korea to force massive evacuations. But a brief by Joshua Stanton, an expert on North Korea, changed that scenario significantly. Stanton argued that a North Korean military offensive was not the only threat Seoul faced. In addition, military planners need to worry about what South Koreans sympathetic to the North might do. Lees verder →