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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.

 

A Summit of Consequence? Great Power Diplomacy and Inadvertent Nuclear War

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“In a surrealist year…. some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his prayers on the 19th green.”-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the...
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/06/24/risks-of-a-nuclear-war-with-north-korea-the-obligation-of-intellect-based-remedies/

Risks of a Nuclear War With North Korea: The Obligation of Intellect-Based Remedies

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“Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?”-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951) Intellect and National Security In the end, nothing could be gained by approaching the North Korean nuclear threat with Trump-era seat-of-the-pants...
Source: The U.S. National Archives

Living with Iran: Israel’s Strategic Imperative

This article was originally published on May 28, 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In response to the almost inevitable Iranian nuclear bomb, Israel must suitably integrate a clear nuclear deterrence posture with multi-layered active defenses. This complex effort...
Chaos by George Frederic Watts (circa 1875)

Politics, Law and the Triumph of Chaos

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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world….” -William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Plus, ca’ change. “The more things change, the more they remain the same.”  In world politics, anarchy is an...
Scrubbing "victim" of simulated chemical attack, Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Randall A. Clinton via Wikimedia Commons

International Law and WMD Attacks on Israel

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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 808, April 24, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the years ahead, Israel could face the growing prospect of WMD terrorism – i.e., attacks involving chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons. In this...

Science, Security and American Nuclear Strategy: An Intellectual Challenge

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“…. science – by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual – is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation…. the latter is...

Israel, Hamas Terror and Power Over Death

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“I believe is the one great word against metaphysical fear.”-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (1918) Though misunderstood by Israel, there is no more compelling form of Jihadist power than power over death. The perilous result of...
Dutch envoy Adriaan Pauw enters Münster around 1646 for the peace negotiations

Israel versus Hamas: Proportionality, Perfidy and the Law of War

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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) Whenever Israel finds itself in...
Karl Jaspers

A Time For Candor: What Have We Learned From The Pandemic?

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“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.” Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971) By definition, Covid-19 has been a crisis of biology. Nonetheless, certain core explanations for American...

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...