Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely this self-serving complacency that the authors of To Win a Nuclear War attack. American presidents have, for example, considered using nuclear weapons in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Moreover, Kaku and Axelrod report, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy seriously looked at detailed plans to initiate a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union...
These were not mere contingency plans; they were operational plans advocated by some of the nation's top military and civilian strategists. In his memoirs, Eisenhower recalled that while president-elect he thought "it was clear that we would have to use atomic weapons" in Korea...
Although North has yet to tell his story to any Iranscam investigators, his memorandums are eloquent testimony to the fantastic nature of his activities. Those efforts were both macro and micro: he supervised the raising of millions of dollars in funds from South Korea and Taiwan while organizing numerous drops of munitions in Nicaragua. A hand-drawn chart that was found in North's office safe shows the complex path of money from private fund-raising organizations to various shadowy corporations. The chart suggests a link between two fund-raising organizations run by North's ally, Conservative Carl ("Spitz") Channell...
...their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned up in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, and middlemen, known as the suitcase brigade, secretly ferried them...
...with what he viewed as General Douglas MacArthur's insubordination as commander of United Nations forces in Korea, Harry Truman told an aide, "The son of a bitch isn't going to resign on me! I want him fired!" Yet Truman did not complete the deed in person; instead he relayed his orders, signed by Army General Omar Bradley, to MacArthur in Tokyo. As it turned out, MacArthur learned indirectly from radio reports that he was out before Truman's message ever reached...