Prof. Louis René Beres

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LOUIS RENÉ BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue. His twelfth and most recent book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel's Nuclear Strategy (2016) (2nd ed., 2018) https://paw.princeton.edu/new-books/surviving-amid-chaos-israel%E2%80%99s-nuclear-strategy Some of his principal strategic writings have appeared in Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); International Security (Harvard University); Yale Global Online (Yale University); Oxford University Press (Oxford University); Oxford Yearbook of International Law (Oxford University Press); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); Special Warfare (Pentagon); Modern War Institute (Pentagon); The War Room (Pentagon); World Politics (Princeton); INSS (The Institute for National Security Studies)(Tel Aviv); Israel Defense (Tel Aviv); BESA Perspectives (Israel); International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; The Atlantic; The New York Times and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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The Atom And The Virus: A Progressively Lethal Convergence For The United States

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Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?

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What If A North Korea Nuclear Crisis Should Coincide With Election Loss For Donald J. Trump?

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When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur

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Preparing For The Next Round Of Belligerent Nationalism

“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...

Donald Trump, “The Crowd” And A Nation’s Bitter Despair

 “The crowd is untruth.”-Soren Kierkegaaard The "crowd," cautioned Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is  “untruth.” Nowhere is the concise wisdom of this 19th century warning more...

From Plato To Donald Trump: A Once Unimaginable Declension

"....till the class of philosophers be invested with the supreme authority in a state, such state and its citizens will find no deliverance from...

Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?

"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the...

If You Like Covid-19, You’ll Love Nuclear War

"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies...."-W.H. Auden Even now, after some many staggering and irreversible leadership mistakes on Corona virus - grievous...

War And Pandemic: Expanding Complexities Of Israeli Nuclear Strategy

"I warn the reader that this essay requires to be read very seriously and that I am unacquainted with any art which can make...

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