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29%OFFAvner Cohen - The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel´s Bargain with the Bomb - 9780231136990 - V9780231136990
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The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel´s Bargain with the Bomb

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Description for The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel´s Bargain with the Bomb Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBLW; JPSF; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 514.
Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that does not acknowledge its possession of the bomb, even though its existence is a common knowledge throughout the world. It only says that it will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East. The bomb is Israel's collective ineffable--the nation's last great taboo. This bargain has a name: in Hebrew, it is called amimut, or opacity. By adhering to the bargain, which was born in a secret deal between Richard ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136990
SKU
V9780231136990
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About Avner Cohen
Avner Cohen is a senior fellow at the Washington Office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has published on subjects as varied as nuclear proliferation and nuclear history, political theory, skepticism, and Israeli history. He is the author of Israel and the Bomb and the coeditor of Nuclear Weapons and the Future ... Read more

Reviews for The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel´s Bargain with the Bomb
Cohen's second outstanding book on Israel's nuclear project, and the veil of ambiguity that has swathed it from inception, provides a richly detailed account of its history and a provocative analysis of its future. Cohen shows how Israel's beleaguered national existence and persistent Holocaust memories led to the taboo on any acknowledgment of its nuclear weapons program, which cannot, in ... Read more

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