Prerequisite for Planetary Survival: The Design of Alternative World Futures
Abstract: This article calls for applying intellectual ingenuity to our planet’s core survival problems: nuclear war; injustice; economic inequality and ecological catastrophe. A necessary...
Nuclear Escalation Doctrine: Impact of American and Russian “Firebreaks” on Israel’s Security
The conceptual and historical background
Soon, Israel will need to make critical decisions on launching preemptive strikes against Iran. Such non-nuclear defensive actions – expressions...
Survival Limits of Military Nuclear Power: Israel and “The Sting of the Bee”
In a now classic 1965 article on nuclear weapons, physicist Leo Szilard offered a clarifying metaphor on different types of national nuclear capability. For...
Israel, Iran and Nuclear Deterrence: What Happens “Where There Is No Common Power”
Special to Modern Diplomacy
Abstract: Israel and Iran remain poised for a multi-level war. Such conflict could become nuclear even if Iran were to remain...
Israel’s Conventional and Nuclear Deterrence: A Systemic Whole
“The existence of system in the world is at once obvious to every observer of nature….” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man...
One Planet, One Humanity: A Final Reminder
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.” -Yogi Berra
It may still sound silly and “unrealistic,” but acknowledging global “oneness” represents humankind’s only plausible...
Facing Iran and its Proxies: Israel ‘s Legal Options for Preemption and Self-Defense
Abstract: Israel has begun to exercise tactical preemption options against Hezbollah, Iran’s most threatening proxy. The most recent and conspicuous preemptions have taken place...
Clarifying Strategic Risks: Scenarios of an Israel-Iran War
Iran continues to taunt Israel with threats of annihilation. But such threats have no tangible strategic foundation. They are erected on a flimsy structure...
The United States, North Korea and Nuclear War
“The laws of physics are decrees of fate.”-Alfred North Whitehead, The Origins of Modern Science
Among the world’s nuclear trouble spots, North Korea is the...
Madness and World Politics: Risks of a Nuclear War
Abstract: Whether by design or inadvertence – by “bolt-from-the-blue” attacks or incremental aggressions – certain states could find themselves embroiled in a nuclear war....