America is the only country that's ever used an atomic bomb in warfare.

It annihilated two Japanese cities at the end of World War II.

Since then, the U.S. and Russia have built nuclear arsenals capable of destroying civilization,

promising, therefore, deterrence only.

But other countries have nuclear weapons, too.

As a candidate, Donald Trump asked, if we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?

Today, we'll look for some answers.

First, the historical context, starting with President Trump.

Now North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life.

But a newly declassified record show that North Korea was not the first country to put nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.

The armistice ending the Korean War in 1953 prohibited new types of weapons or ammunition.

Did the Eisenhower administration adhere to its terms?

They did not within five years of signing it.

That's Walter Pinkus, former Washington Post National Corresponded, now a columnist for the Cipher Brief.

What did they do instead? Well, they had begun planning. People forget that back in the

50s in the post-Korean War period, they were trying to cut the amount of money being spent in Korea.

And the only way to get the Joint Chiefs to reduce two of our divisions and four of theirs

was to agree to bring in tactical nuclear weapons to replace the forces that were left.

So the United States, in violation of the agreement that there would not be new types of weapons in order to save money,

installed the kinds of nuclear weapons that you described in violation of the agreement?

What they did was to set it up by claiming that the North Koreans had violated ahead of time because they had put in an advanced

brought an advanced Soviet jet in.

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