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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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Sovereignty and Survival

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Special to Jewish Website Abstract: Core issues surrounding Iran's nuclear weapons program have generally been strategic or political rather than legal. Nonetheless, if Israel should sometime decide that it no longer has any reasonable alternative...
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Foundations of Nuclear War Avoidance: An Intellectual and Legal Challenge

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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) Nuclear weapons...

A New Film’s Hidden Message: “Oppenheimer,” Escalation Dominance and Inadvertent Nuclear War

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Introduction: The new film about Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer raises counter-intuitive questions about nuclear weapons as instruments of peace. Despite serious misgivings about the bomb he had created (“I am become death, the destroyer...
From the film Dr. Strangelove, 1964

Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again

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In 1962, Herman Kahn riveted the US defense community with a book titled Thinking About the Unthinkable. Far ahead of its time, the American physicist’s seminal work displayed a rare combination of conceptual imagination, intellectual capacity...

“…Like A Field Of Ripe Corn” -The Origins Of American “Mass”

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“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.” -T S Eliot For the most part, what Americans receive as their daily news is reflection. Any more penetrating thought concerning such...
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When Aggression and Genocide Combine: Putin’s ‘Hiterlite’ War Against Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin’s multiple crimes against Ukraine include aggression and genocide. But what happens when these two categories of criminality come together? Among other things, this result is not “merely” additive; it is also synergistic. Hence, the...

How and why international law and strategy should be merged when engaging Middle Eastern...

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ISRAEL, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: ANALYTIC CHALLENGES OF SYSTEM “The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.” -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959) Whether...

If and when to strike first – A guest essay on Israeli preemption

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IF AND WHEN TO STRIKE FIRST ISRAEL, PREEMPTION AND ANTICIPATORY SELF-DEFENSE Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University Abstract: “The safety of the people,” declares Cicero in The Laws, “is the highest law.”...

Legal Order In World Politics: A Hobbesian Dilemma

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“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII A Hobbesian World The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics with the “state of nature.” In this anarchic state, war is...
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King Charles III’s Coronation at the Convergence of Policy, Sovereignty, and Immortality

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It’s an uncommon association, but certain connections have been suggested between sovereignty (the highest form of earthly authority) and offerings of immortality. For the most part, at the level of philosophical investigation, such connections have not...