Editor's Pick: Could Tech Nerf North Korea?

Could Tech Nerf North Korea?

Rob Enderle Jul 10, 2017 10:19 AM PT
	When a hostile country regularly lobs missiles into the ocean with the stated objective of transforming a U.S. state into a radioactive cloud, we have a problem. One "oops" and we could suddenly become a 49-state nation again. Approaches to North Korea tend to be in-the-box thinking, but there are new technologies that effectively could neutralize the threat it poses. [More...]

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