US discussed holding first nuclear test in decades, report
The last full-scale underground test of a nuclear weapon was conducted at the Nevada Test Site in September 1992. (Los Alamos National Laboratory) In meeting in the White House on May 15 President Donald Trump’s More...
If You Like Covid-19, You’ll Love Nuclear War
Prof. Louis René Beres “Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies….”-W.H. Auden Even now, after some many staggering and irreversible leadership mistakes on Coronavirus – grievous More...
Complex Determinations: Deciphering Enemy Nuclear Intentions
Louis René Beres Introduction In early May 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump—responding to Kim Jung-un’s latest round of missile tests—sought to reassure the American public. His seat-of-the-pants More...
Israel, Iran and Project Daniel: A Six-Year Retrospective
Louis René Beres Chair of Project Daniel Professor of International Law Department of Political Science Purdue University It is now ten years after that 2009 Herzliya presentation, and according to Project More...
Report: Mossad helped smuggle Iranian nuclear scientist to Europe
An Iranian nuclear scientist was reportedly smuggled out of the Islamic Republic to the UK in a joint operation of the British Intelligence Agency MI6, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s More...
Israel And The “Samson Option” In An Interconnected World
“I mean to show you of my strength, yet greater; As with amaze shall strike all who behold. This uttered, straining all his nerves he bowed; As with the force of winds and waters pent When mountains tremble, More...
Nuclear Decision-Making and Nuclear War: An Urgent American Problem
Louis René Beres In nuclear war, the past is necessarily a poor guide Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” His classic warning remains More...
Exploiting A Timeless Wisdom: Insights From Sun-Tzu For US Nuclear Strategy
By Louis René Beres Special to Jewish Business News “Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the way to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed.” Sun-Tzu, More...
Deciphering Complex Connections: World Politics and Israel’s Nuclear Strategy
By Louis René Beres “The existence of ‘system’ in the world is at once obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom….” (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man) More More...
Russian PM slams ‘impotent’ Trump as Russia, N. Korea, Iran reject US sanctions
US sanctions: After US President Donald Trump reluctantly signed into law Wednesday sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea, officials from all three countries denounced the move, each in their own way. Trump More...