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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres
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Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is the author of many books, monographs, and scholarly articles dealing with various legal and military aspects of  nuclear strategy. In Israel, he was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon, 2003). Over the past years, he has published extensively on nuclear warfare issues in the Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); Yale Global Online (Yale University); JURIST; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Atlantic; The Washington Times; US News & World Report; Special Warfare (Pentagon); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); The New York Times; The Hill; The Jerusalem Post; and Oxford University Press. His twelfth book,  published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield, is titled: Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy.

 

Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

Analyzing Vladimir Putin: Is Joe Biden Dealing With A “Normal” Adversary?

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Assessing an adversarial head of state is not usually a psychiatric task. For the most part, such high-value strategic appraisals need not be directed by any deliberate search for “abnormality.” Among other things, this...
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Fragmentation, Aggression, Genocide: Deeper Meanings of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

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“But tell me, my brothers, if humanity still lacks a goal, is humanity itself not still lacking? Thus inquired Zarathustra.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra It’s hard to imagine anything decent emerging from Vladimir Putin’s genocidal aggression against Ukraine, but...
Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

Remembering Nuremberg: Legal Obligations To Remove And Prosecute Vladimir Putin

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Nullum crimen sine poena, “No crime without a punishment” Though US President Joseph Biden was initially criticized for interfering in Russia’s “sovereign jurisdiction,” no allegation of “intervention” could have been more sorely mistaken. In this matter, the Nuremberg Principles are...
Wikimedia Commons / Nuremberg Trials / US Army Signal Corps

Why President Biden’s Call for Putin’s Removal Should Not Be “Walked Back”

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“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” – US President Joe Biden, March 26, 2022 Though rarely recognized, international law is part of the law of the United States. It follows, among other things, that...

Why Joe Biden’s Call For Vladimir Putin‘s Removal Was Law-Enforcing

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Let’s begin at the beginning. International law is part of the law of the United States. It follows, among other things, that if the American president’s recent call for Vladimir Putin’s departure was consistent...
Photo: North Korea’s ballistic missile – North Korea Victory Day-2013 =  Stefan Krasowski via Wikimedia Commons

Warding Off Calamitous “Silence” Risks of A U.S.-North Korea Nuclear War

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“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.” Albert Camus, The Plague An accelerating nuclear threat By August 2021, it was clear that nuclear-armed North Korea...
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Where Are We Heading?: Journeys from “First Man” to the “Last”

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“The dust from which the first man was created was gathered in all four corners of the earth.” – Talmud Reforming International Law In the midst of Russia’s escalating crimes against Ukraine, the United States and other nations have one...
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Capping Existential Nuclear Crisis In Ukraine

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US President Joe Biden has been criticized for opposing a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Though decent people everywhere are horrified by the mounting war crimes being committed by Russian President Vladimir Putin – crimes of...
Wikimedia Commons / Major Ofer, Israeli Air Force

Israeli Nuclear Deterrence Against Broad Spectrum Attacks: Strategic and Legal Considerations

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“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” – Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s (1984) Abstract: Theoretic assessments of Israel’s nuclear strategy –...
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“The Worst Does Sometime Happen”: Avoiding a Nuclear War Over Ukraine

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Abstract: Earlier, as part of Russia’s escalating aggression against Ukraine – an aggression that now includes armed attack on a nuclear power plant – President Vladimir Putin placed his nuclear forces on high alert. Correspondingly, the United States should...