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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Well-Reasoned Scenarios: Israel, Iran and Nuclear War

“Then fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”-Archilochus At first glance, the June 2025 military operation against Iran carried no risks...

A Planetary Obligation: Listening to Reason at the Eleventh Hour

“When you have listened to Reason, it is wise to agree that all things are one.” - Heraclitus, Fragments In world politics, nothing is disconnected....

Rescuing the American Republic: Time to Look “Backwards” and “Forwards”

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“Dignity” and “Thought”: When the American President Declares War on Reason

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“No Attention to Spare for Reasoning”: When the American President Is “Mass Man”

“The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” - Jose Ortega y’Gasset, The Revolt of the...

“America First” And Planetary Survival: A Primal Contradiction

"The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself' is false and...

The Ultimate Test of Illegal Orders: Nuclear War Decision-Making by President Trump

“As to dangers arising from an irrational American president, the best protection is not to elect one.” - General Maxwell D. Taylor, letter to...

“A House of Dynamite”: Donald Trump and Nuclear War

Origins of a Unique Threat The new film, “A House of Dynamite.” concerns a bolt-from-the-blue nuclear attack on the United States. Though many will regard...

Calamity, Truth and Silence: America and World-System Chaos

“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric…It is only in the thick of a calamity...

“The Greatest Affair of State”: Managing Risks of Nuclear Warfare

“Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the way to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered...

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