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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.

 

American Nuclear Strategy: Challenge of Mind, not Politics

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In human history, the highest achievements of war preparedness and war avoidance can be found in triumphs of intellect, or victories of mind over mind. Today, in an unstable world of growing military nuclearization, major world...

A Provident Posture for Israel: Facing Nuclear Iran as an Intellectual Problem

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“Subjugating the enemy’s army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.” Sun-Tzu, The Art of War Mitigating Trump-Policy Mistakes Though Donald Trump sought to convince Israel that US withdrawal from the Iran pact would be gainful,...

Realpolitik And Power Over Death: Unceasing Delusions Of World Politics

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“Individual man sees in his country the realization of his earthly immortality.” Heinrich von Treitschke, Lectures on Politics History: “An Illustrious War Against Death” Where to begin? Why acknowledge that world politics holds a key for personal immortality? What...

America and North Korea: Seeking Plausible Nuclear Objectives

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“Deterrence is concerned with influencing the choices that another party will make, and doing it by influencing his expectations of how we will behave.” Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (1960) Though America’s current president began on...

A Stain on Jewish Values: Israel’s Misguided Obeisance to Donald Trump

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“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary…. Rabbi Hillel, Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a Introduction: Trump and Talmud Israel’s largely enthusiastic support for Donald J. Trump...
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Controlling Nuclear Risks: A Basic Obligation of U.S, Law and Policy

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Abstract: In principle, especially during a rare historical moment of extra-terrestrial exploration and immunological control, our species ought to render itself capable of managing nuclear threats. Prima facie, after all, the difficulties of transporting complex instrumentation...
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Charting an American Return to Reason: Nuclear Policy Goals on North Korea

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“All our dignity consists in thought….It is upon this that we must depend…Let us labor then to think well: this is the foundation of morality.”Blaise Pascal, Pensées The Primacy of Intellect On matters of United States foreign...

Managing Nuclear Threats: President Biden’s Primary Policy Imperative

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“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” Guillaume Apollinaire, The New Spirit and the Poets (1917) In the final analysis, nuclear war...
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Looking Beyond “America First”: Thought-Based Legal Strategies for Long-Term Survival

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“The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself’ is false and against nature.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man From...

Imagining Sisyphus Happy. An Escape From Trumpian Farce

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“One must imagine Sisyphus Happy.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus The “Theatrical” Dilemma As literary genre, the grimly corrosive Trump years are best described not as tragedy (which is ennobling), but as “farce.” Though not readily apparent,...