North Korea Expert Jeffrey Lewis Imagines Nuclear War in New Novel

Critics are calling The 2020 Commission on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Middlebury Institute professor and nuclear weapons expert Dr. Jeffrey Lewis “the opposite of a warm glass of milk,” “a Dr. Strangelove for our time,” and “an attempt to give us hindsight before it’s too late.” The novel is presented in the form of a fictional government report published three years after horrific nuclear attacks on South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. It lays out a plausible scenario for how a nuclear war with North Korea might unfold, through a series of unfortunate errors and circumstances, as well as one provocative presidential tweet.