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New Interactive Resource from the Nuclear Threat Initiative Asks, Can We Really Count on Luck to Keep Us Safe? WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fifty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union spent two weeks on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, the threat of a nuclear crisis remains more dangerous and complicated than ever. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) today launched a new interactive resource about the 1962 crisis...

By Jon Herskovitz and Jack KimSEOUL -- North Korea started its missile program in part to deliver a first strike on the South but it has grown into a source of cash and a possible way for a poor state with an obsolescent air force to deliver a nuclear strike.Experts say Pyongyang lacks the technology to miniaturize a nuclear weapon for missile delivery, but it does have an arsenal capable of hitting all of South Korea and almost all of Japan.The missile program was in part born out of the...