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THE 2020 COMMISSION REPORT ON THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR ATTACKS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES : A Speculative Novel

Jeffrey Lewis
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A Speculative Account Of A Hypothetical Nuclear Attack By North Korea Against The United States

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ISBN 9781328573919
Book Condition WELL USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Mariner Books)
Publication Date 07 August 2018
Pages 304
Weight 0.32 kg
Dimension 20.5 × 13.5 × 2.3 cm
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The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States is a speculative fiction novel by Jeffrey Lewis describing a hypothetical nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States of America. It is written in the style of a government report written in the aftermath of the conflict, in 2023, and uses many real-world figures.
 
America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity.
 
“The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue.” So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to investigate the horrific events of the next three days.
 
An independent, bipartisan panel led by nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, the commission was charged with finding and reporting the relevant facts, investigating how the nuclear war began, and determining whether our government was adequately prepared for combating a nuclear adversary and safeguarding U.S. citizens.


Did President Trump and his advisers understand North Korean views about nuclear weapons? Did they appreciate the dangers of provoking the country’s ruler with social media posts and military exercises? Did the tragic milestones of that fateful month—North Korea’s accidental shoot-down of Air Busan flight 411, the retaliatory strike by South Korea, and the tweet that triggered vastly more carnage—inevitably lead to war? Or did America’s leaders have the opportunity to avert the greatest calamity in the history of our nation?
 
Answering these questions will not bring back the lives lost in March 2020. It will not rebuild New York, Washington, or the other cities reduced to rubble. But at the very least, it might prevent a tragedy of this magnitude from occurring again. It is this hope, more than any other, that inspired The 2020 Commission Report.
 
The conflict begins unintentionally, with a North Korean KN-06 unit in Ongjin, near the Korean Demilitarized Zone shooting down a civilian Air Busan Airbus A320, which was flying off-course and without a transponder due to a brief loss of power in the cockpit, having mistaken it for a U.S. stealth aircraft.
 
South Korean President Moon Jae-in orders a retaliatory attack on North Korea without the approval of the United States, firing six missiles at the Headquarters of the Korean People’s Army Air and Anti-Air Force near Pyongyang and a residence of Kim Jong-un.
 
Following the missile attack, North Korea’s leadership, lacking communications infrastructure, misinterprets Tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump so as to believe that a decapitation strike is in-progress.
 
North Korea launches nuclear missiles in the hopes of staving off further U.S.-South Korean attacks, with nuclear bombs detonating over Seoul, Busan, Pyeongtaek and Daegu in South Korea and Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan. Missiles launched at Guam and Okinawa fail to reach their targets. Negotiations at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City fail to resolve the conflict.
 
The United States launches a retaliatory conventional strike on North Korea, but fail to locate the vehicle-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles in North Korea’s arsenal. North Korea proceeds to launch 13 nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States.
 
The Ground-Based Interceptors at Fort Greely fail to intercept the incoming ICBMs, which detonate over Honolulu, Hawaii, Jupiter, Florida, Arlington County, Virginia, and Manhattan, New York. President Trump evacuates from Mar-a-Lago aboard Air Force One, narrowly avoiding the nuclear explosion. Kim Jong-un subsequently commits suicide at a bunker in Myohyangsan, and Mike Pence succeeds Trump as President of the United States.
 
In the book, Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on nuclear policy, imagines a series of coordinated nuclear attacks by North Korea on several major U.S. cities. The story unfolds through the lens of a fictional commission report established to investigate the events and understand the failures that led to such devastating attacks.
 
“The 2020 Commission Report” explores the political, military, and intelligence aspects that could have played a role in the hypothetical scenario. It examines the strategic choices made by both North Korea and the United States and investigates the systemic failures, intelligence gaps, and policy mistakes that allowed the attacks to occur.
 
It’s important to note that “The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States” is a work of fiction and not a factual account. The author uses this fictional narrative to raise awareness about the potential risks and consequences of nuclear proliferation and the importance of robust strategic planning and diplomacy in preventing such catastrophic events.
 
The 2020 Commission Report is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the dangers of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war. It is a sobering reminder of the importance of peace and the need to work to prevent nuclear war.
 
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About the Author :
 
Jeffrey Lewis, PhD is a columnist for Foreign Policy, a scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a research affiliate at the Stanford University Center for Security and International Cooperation. He previously worked for the Department of Defense.
 
Also a former director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation and former executive director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, he is currently the publisher of ArmsControlWonk.com, the leading blog on disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation. In addition to hosting the Arms Control Wonk podcast, he was profiled on This American Life, and has written for TheNew York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, and elsewhere.
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