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Until now there has been no detailed account of Israels nuclear history.Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors leaks andjournalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb Avner Cohen has forgedan interpretive political history that draws on thousands of American andIsraeli government documents most of them recently declassified and neverbefore cited and more than one hundred interviews with key individuals whoplayed important roles in this story. Cohen reveals that Israel crossed thenuclear weapons threshold on the eve of the 1967 SixDay War yet it remainsambiguous about its nuclear capability to this day. What made this posture ofopacity possible and how did it evolve?Cohen focuses on a twodecade period from about 1950 until 1970 during whichDavid BenGurions vision of making Israel a nuclearweapon state was realized.He weaves together the story of the formative years of Israels nuclearprogram from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952 tothe alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology itneeded to the failure of American intelligence to identify the Dimona Projectfor what it was to the negotiations between President Nixon and Prime MinisterMeir that led to the current policy of secrecy. Cohen also analyzes the complexreasons Israel concealed its nuclear program from concerns over Arabreaction and the negative effect of the debate at home to consideration ofAmericas commitment to nonproliferation.Israel and the Bomb highlights the key questions and the many potent issuessurrounding Israels nuclear history. This book will be a critical resource forstudents of nuclear proliferation Middle East politics Israeli history andAmericanIsraeli relations as well as a revelation for general readers. «
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