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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.

 

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After the American Election: Overcoming Plague, Chaos and “Mass”

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“The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” – Jose Ortega y’Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) In the United States, prima facie, presidential elections represent a core fixture...
Francisco Goya Disasters of War - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future

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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”-T S Eliot, The Waste Land Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in the Middle East and Africa has always been a net-negative for...
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486) Google Art Project edited wikipedia

Pestilence and Rebirth: Affirming Life in a Time of “Plague”

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“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric….It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth – in other words...
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An Ironic Juxtaposition – Global Security And Human Mortality

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It is an  unexplored and ironic combination. The commonality of death for human beings – an incontestable end often regarded as the prototype of all injustice – is also a latent source of  human...
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Building World Order from “Plague”: Utopian, but Necessary

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“In the end, we are  creatures of our own making.”-Goethe, Faust From the start of the current worldwide “plague,” US President Donald J. Trump has claimed the corona virus crisis can be easily managed. “Soon,” he...
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“Hic Sunt Dracones”: Still Expanding Risks of a US-North Korea Nuclear War

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“Friction is the difference between war on paper, and war as it actually is.” – Carl von Clausewitz, On War Once again, on October 9, 2020, with immodest displays of tangible hardware, North Korea mocked Donald...
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“Good Genes,” Proud Boys and White Supremacy: An International Law Perspective

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“The goal is to dominate the street.” – US President Donald J. Trump, June 1, 2020 There are disturbing connections. Before openly embracing the “Proud Boys” during his first debate with Democrat opponent Joe Biden,...

Nuclear Decision-Making And Covid19 Impairments: Existential Perils Of The Trump Presidency

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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 Mind (1958) It...
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Donald Trump and the “Racehorse”. Echoes of Eugenics in the Third Reich.

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“You have good genes. A lot of it’s about the genes isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory you think was so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.” Donald J. Trump, rally in...

Presidential Evil And American Good: Can They Coexist?

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If men or nations do evil in a good cause; if they cover themselves with guilt in order to fulfill some high responsibility; or if they sacrifice some high value for the sake of...