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Israel, Iran, and Nuclear War: A History of the Future

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For Israel’s military planners, issues of Iranian nuclearization are increasingly bewildering and many-sided. Even while Israel remains the only regional atomic power, a nuclear war is not out of the question. More precisely, even...

Still overlooked connections: Israel, “Palestine” and regional nuclear war

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Though significant, connections between Palestinian Arab statehood and nuclear war remain generally ignored. For Israel, the seemingly discrete perils of war with Iran and Palestinian Arab statehood are potentially intertwined and mutually reinforcing. This...

Madness, sanity, nuclear war and EMP in the Middle East

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"Into the eternal gloom, into fire, into ice.”Dante, Inferno As matters stand presently, it would not be in Iran's interest to use NNEMP weapons. This is because Israel could mount a higher level EMP (an NEMP) retaliation....

‘Before the Storm’ -For Israel, existential benefits of a time-advantaged war with Iran

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Edited by: Ingrid Burke Friedman | JURIST Editorial Director The author, professor emeritus of international law at Purdue University, argues that ironic though it may sound, a managed conflict with a pre-nuclear Iran may be Israel's...

When truth is counter-intuitive

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Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) Emeritus Professor of International Law Purdue University lberes@purdue.edu VLADIMIR: “Well? What do we do now”? ESTRAGON: “Don’t let’s do anything. It’s safer.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot The “Theatrical” Background Understood as genre, there is ample good reason to...
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Israel’s survival ‘in time’

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In essence, time represents the most critical determinant of Israel’s survival as a state. This is true not just in relation to operational requirements of counterterrorism and nuclear war avoidance, but also because Israel’s policies reflect...

Destabilizing Israel and the Middle East; America, “Palestine” and Regional Nuclear War

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“All people…who dare not defend themselves when they know they are in the right, who submit to punishment not because of what they have done but because of who they are, are already dead...

Nuclear War with Iran: Israel’s science-based options

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“I learn a science from the soul’s aggressions.” - St. John Perse The evidence is compelling. In various parts of the world, including the Middle East, a nuclear war is increasingly plausible. Still, identifying meaningful time...

Avoiding Nuclear War in the “State of Nature”: America’s Responsibility

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“So the nature of war consists not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.”-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651 The “time” to which the seventeenth century...

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...