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A specialist in foreign affairs and international law, with particular reference to strategic studies, he is author of many articles and books, including Reason and Realpolitik, Nuclear Strategy and World Order,and Apocalypse: Nuclear Catastrophe in World Politics.
The articles in this section have been adapted, with permission, from Security or Armageddon: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy,edited by Louis René Beres, published by Lexington Books.
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Beres, L.R. Israeli options. Society 23, 36–42 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695887
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695887