- Prof. Louis Renรฉ Beres
- July 2, 2017
- Paper No. 516
The utility of Israel's nuclear strategy will ultimately depend on accurate assessments of enemy rationality. In this connection, the military planners in Tel Aviv must determine if an adversarial leadership is predictably rational, irrational, or "mad," and whether a calculated posture of "pretended irrationality" could sometimes benefit Israel.