For Singapore Meeting, Preparation, Not Attitude (or Size) Matters
By Louis René Beres, Special to Jewish Business News As with much of Donald Trump’s defense policy planning, the president’s current nuclear strategy seems to be advancing ad hoc, as a more-or-less More...
“Fear and Dust”: Israel’s Survival and the Bomb
By Louis René Beres Special to Jewish Business News “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land On September 24, 2009, following a speech by then More...
North Korea: Will Suspend Nuclear Tests and Shut Down the Test Site; Donald Trump Tweets His Praise
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that his country will immediately (April 21) suspend nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and shut down a nuclear test site in the northern area, state More...
Israeli Spy Agency Chief 100 Percent Certain Iran Seeks Nuclear Bomb
Yossi Cohen, head of Mossad the Israeli spy agency is “100 percent certain” that the Islamic Republic remains committed to developing a nuclear bomb and believes the international community must change More...
Israel Confirms Attacking Syrian Nuclear Reactor in 2007
On the night between September 5 and 6, 2007, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived at the Israel Air Force “pit” at the Kirya IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. Next to him sat his relatively new defense minister, More...
Twin Perils for Israel: Iranian Nuclear Weapons and “Palestine”
By Louis René Beres “I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes, Discourse on Method Although difficult to calibrate or measure, Iranian nuclearization and Palestinian statehood More...
Assessing an Irrational U.S. Presidential Nuclear Attack Order
By Louis René Beres “Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind….Usually, they have wreaked havoc.” Sigmund More...
Estimating Risks of an Israel-Iran Nuclear War
By Louis René Beres, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Purdue University “For By Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.” Proverbs, 24,6 For the moment, an Israel-Iran More...
Nuclear Deterrence and Conflict: The Case of Israel
By Louis René Beres “Deliberate ambiguity” notwithstanding, Israel’s’ core nuclear posture has remained consistent. It asserts that the tiny country’s presumptive nuclear weapons can succeed More...
Who’s Got the Biggest Nuclear Button?
In Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s Day speech, he claimed that North Korea‘s nuclear forces are now “completed”, stating that the nuclear launch button is always within his reach. More...