Tag: Nuclear Doctrine
Reconsidering Nuclear Command Authority: America’s Most Urgent Obligation
“The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the terrible news.”-Bertolt Brecht
It’s high time for candor. President Donald J. Trump has effectively unchecked nuclear command authority. Though once inconceivable, this president could sometime...
Israel’s Nuclear Doctrine: A Science and Law-Based Assessment
“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 not possible without...
Israel, Iran and Nuclear Deterrence: What Happens “Where There Is No Common Power”
Abstract: Israel and Iran remain poised for a multi-level war. Such conflict could become nuclear even if Iran were to remain non-nuclear. This generally-overlooked observation owes to an inevitably ensuing competition in risk-taking. To wit,...