ISBN10: 0231104839, ISBN13: 9780231104838, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Softcover 470 pages. Cover delaminatingUntil now, there has been no det ailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalistic sp eculations. But with Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive political history that draws on thousands of Amer ican and Israeli government documents--most of them recently decl assified and never before cited--and more than one hundred interv iews with key individuals who played important roles in this stor y. Cohen reveals that Israel crossed the nuclear weapons threshol d on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, yet it remains ambiguous ab out its nuclear capability to this day. What made this posture of opacity possible, and how did it evolve? Cohen focuses on a tw o-decade period from about 1950 until 1970, during which David Be n-Gurion's vision of making Israel a nuclear-weapon state was rea lized. He weaves together the story of the formative years of Isr ael's nuclear program, from the founding of the Israeli Atomic En ergy Commission in 1952, to the alliance with France that gave Is rael the sophisticated technology it needed, to the failure of Am erican intelligence to identify the Dimona Project for what it wa s, to the negotiations between President Nixon and Prime Minister Meir that led to the current policy of secrecy. Cohen also analy zes the ...

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