Nuclear Strategy
The Evolution of Nuclear Weapons: From Battlefield Tools to Political Instruments
For over 70 years, nuclear weapons have been an integral part of our world, evolving into a modern-day phenomenon reflected in art, literature, and film...
American and Russian “Firebreaks”: Survival Risks of Asymmetrical Nuclear Doctrine
“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.”– Herman Kahn, Thinking About...
Israel And “Last Things”
Examined historically, war and terror against Israel are better explained by eschatology (the study of “last things”) than by enemy hopes for “self-defense” or...
Could Israeli Nuclear Deterrence Protect Against Iranian Non-Nuclear Attacks?
Abstract: As Israel approaches a full-scale war with Iran, its nuclear weapons and strategy are generally presumed irrelevant to deterring that state’s non-nuclear threats....
Nuclear Command Authority and the U.S. Presidential Election
“The terrible ifs accumulate.” Winston Churchill
An Overlooked “If”
Until the eleventh hour of his incoherent presidency, Donald J. Trump held effectively unchecked nuclear command authority....
Impending War with Iran: Israel’s Lawful Opportunity to Prevent Iranian Nuclear Weapons
Abstract: Israel’s “no choice” Gaza War has been fought primarily against sub-state terrorist adversary Hamas. In the coming weeks, however, a threatened “retaliation” from...
Still Calculable Connections: Israeli Nuclear Deterrence and War with Iran
“The worst does sometimes happen.”-Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss Playwright
The author, Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres, has been lecturing and publishing for more than fifty years...
Nuclear War and Anti-Reason
“The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in...
Safeguarding America’s Nuclear Command Authority: Security Obligations in an Absurd World Order
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian
It should be inconceivable. A previous American president, law-breaking and manipulative in his every significant policy...
Escalation Signaling in Ukraine and Its Implications for the Strategic Russia-US Relationship
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated an unprecedented use of missile capabilities and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by both militaries. While Ukraine’s capabilities present...