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Israel and the Bomb
Avner Cohen
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Description for Israel and the Bomb
Paperback. This interpretive political history that draws on thousands of American and Israeli government documents-most of them recently declassified and never before cited-and more than one hundred interviews with key individuals who played important roles in this story. Num Pages: 470 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1KBB; JPA; JPSF; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 780.
Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive political history that draws on thousands of American and Israeli government documents-most of them recently declassified and never before cited-and more than one hundred interviews with key individuals who played important roles in this story. Cohen reveals that Israel crossed the nuclear weapons threshold on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, yet it remains ambiguous about its nuclear capability to this day. ... Read more
Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive political history that draws on thousands of American and Israeli government documents-most of them recently declassified and never before cited-and more than one hundred interviews with key individuals who played important roles in this story. Cohen reveals that Israel crossed the nuclear weapons threshold on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, yet it remains ambiguous about its nuclear capability to this day. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
470
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
779g
Number of Pages
470
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231104838
SKU
V9780231104838
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About Avner Cohen
Avner Cohen is a senior research fellow at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. He has taught and researched in universities in Israel and the United States and has published numerous articles on subjects as diverse as skepticism, political theory, nuclear ethics, nuclear proliferation, and Israeli history. He is the coeditor of Nuclear Weapons and the Future of ... Read more
Reviews for Israel and the Bomb
A scholarly treatise that includes over 1,200 footnotes, yet reads like a novel... [Cohen] analyzes in rich detail how this policy of 'nuclear opacity' evolved and what made it possible.
Lawrence Kolb New York Times Book Review Israel and the Bomb should be required reading for those interested in nuclear issues in general and in the complexities of the ... Read more
Lawrence Kolb New York Times Book Review Israel and the Bomb should be required reading for those interested in nuclear issues in general and in the complexities of the ... Read more