Nina Tannenwald, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Brown University

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1 David Nakamura and Anne Gearan, “In UN Speech, Trump Threatens to ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’ and Calls Kim Jong Un ‘Little Rocket Man,’” Washington Post, September 19, 2017, <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/19/in-u-n-speech-trump-warns-that-the-world-faces-great-peril-from-rogue-regimes-in-north-korea-iran/>; Peter Baker and Michael Tackett, “Trump Says His ‘Nuclear Button’ is ‘Much Bigger’ Than North Korea’s,” New York Times, January 2, 2018, <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/politics/trump-tweet-north-korea.html>.

2 Reuters, “Trump says North Korea ‘no longer a nuclear threat,’” June 13, 2018, <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-trump/trump-says-north-korea-no-longer-a-nuclear-threat-idUSKBN1J915T>.

3 Robert Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), p. 22.

4 Roberta Rampton, “‘We fell in love;’ Trump swoons over letters from North Korea’s Kim,” Reuters, September 30, 2018, <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-trump/we-fell-in-love-trump-swoons-over-letters-from-north-koreas-kim-idUSKCN1MA03Q>.

5 Robyn Dixon, “Ominous rhetoric gains ground in Russia as its forces founder in Ukraine,” Washington Post, April 13, 2022, <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/russias-war-ukraine-founders-ominous-rhetoric-gains-ground/>. Portions of this paragraph draw on Nina Tannenwald, “Is Nuclear Still Taboo?,” Foreign Policy, Summer 2022, pp. 36–38.