Israel and the Bomb

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by: Avner Cohen

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9780231104838
ISBN: 0231104839
Label: Columbia University Press
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 478
Publication Date: October 15, 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Studio: Columbia University Press

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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.






Rating: - Great Book on Political Aspect of Israel's Nuclear Program
Avner Cohen focuses on the political, rather than technical, dimensions of Israel's development of nuclear weapons in this 1998 work. Cohen's goal is to explain how international and domestic political pressures shaped Israel's strategy of "nuclear opacity." Cohen differentiates opacity from ambiguity- the phrase many use to describe Israel's nuclear strategy. In documenting Israel nuclear program, Cohen demonstrates the importance of individuals (both U.S. and Israeli) in the rise of a new ... Read More

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Rating: - Should this book have been written?
I am not certain that this book should have been written.
It was obviously written against the wishes of the Israeli Defense Establishment. This is important because that Establishment is responsible for the security and well- being of Israel. Cohen as a native Israeli might have had that as priority.
On the other hand what he seems to believe is that an open- discussion of Israel's nuclear option is good for Israel. He also seems to believe that it would be better if Israel made it clear ... Read More

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Rating: - The Strange World of Nuclear Politics
A (long) waiting for the latest shipment of books from Amazon has an upside - I'm left to read books purchased in Israeli bookstores, often in Hebrew, and obviously, often about Israel or Israeli politics.

Avner Cohen's "Israel and the Bomb" is such a book, and, despite some structural flaws it is a well written one. The main focus is not really Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction, but Israel's nuclear policies, particularly vis a vis the United States. This is the story of Israel's responds ... Read More

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Rating: - Israel's nuclear opacity
Interesting account of the secret development of the Israeli atomic bomb, starting in the fifties with the decision of Ben Gurion, and his persistence. One can hardly exempt Israel from the general charges against proliferation, but at least in this instance there is a certain discipline to the endeavor, and, so far, no mad bomber routines. To be sure, Israel is a special case, the factor of deterrence has surely been more than abstraction. And one can only cheer at the destruction of the Iraq reactor.
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Rating: - Good Book, Though the Title is Misleading
Cohen has done an admirable job of putting together a history of the diplomacy regarding Israel's decsion to pursue a nuclear weapons capability. And herein lies the problem. This book should really be titled Israel, America, and the Bomb. Most of the book is dedicated to telling the story of Isreaeli/US diplomacy regarding Isreal's facilities at Dimona. Readers expecting to find any information on how Israel went about actually building the bomb, will be disappointed. Nonetheless in an age were most non-fiction ... Read More

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