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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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A core challenge of higher education

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Speaking at the University’s 271st Commencement on June 5, President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 urged the Class of 2018 to champion the value of a college degree. Implicit in any such correct urging was...
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US Foreign Policy Can’t Ignore Human Rights

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US President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate urgent nuclear matters, and not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Nonetheless, any such willful US indifference to these violations in another...
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Capella Hotel in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Photo courtesy of White House/Wikimedia Commons.

Wanted: A Plan for Nuclear Diplomacy

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Trump will have no remaining choice but to “live with” a nuclear North Korea, and the United States will finally have to focus on meaningfully tangible and authentically realistic goals. It’s time to talk substance...
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Unexplored Connections: The Crimes of Saddam Hussein and Israeli-Palestinian Relations

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Nullum crimen sine poena,  "No crime without a punishment." - Nuremberg Tribunal, Final Judgment, 1946 Whether formally codified or merely personal, memory must always lie at the heart of justice. Today, however, almost no one remembers...

Exploiting A Timeless Wisdom: Insights From Sun-Tzu For US Nuclear Strategy

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Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the way to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed. Sun-Tzu, The Art of War Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War, written sometime in...
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The United States and North Korea: Deterrence, Not “Denuclearization”

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“Men as a rule willingly believe what they want to believe.” (Julius Caesar, Caesar's Gallic War, Book III, Chapter 18) Following the manifestly inconclusive Singapore summit, when not even the definition of "complete denuclearization" could be agreed upon,...
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Recalling Project Daniel: Israel, Iran and Regional Nuclear War

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“In the end, we must all depend upon creatures of our own making.” (Goethe, Faust) On January 16, 2003, the private Project Daniel Group first advised then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the then already-growing threat of...
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Science, “Soul,” and the Management of Terrorism

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"So says science, and I believe in science, but up to now, has science ever troubled to look at the world other than from without" (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, 1955) Always, for obvious...

For Singapore Meeting, Preparation, Not Attitude (Or Size) Matters

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As with much of Donald Trump’s defense policy planning, the president’s current nuclear strategy seems to be advancing ad hoc, as a more-or-less impromptu response to certain perceived changes in North Korean threat levels. Looking ahead to...
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Too Late for North Korea Denuclearization

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WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA: After canceling a summit with North Korea, President Donald Trump must set realistic goals. Most urgently, he must back off from the idea that Pyongyang might be amenable to discarding its...