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Author Aronson, Shlomo, 1936-

Title The Politics and strategy of nuclear weapons in the Middle East : opacity, theory, and reality, 1960-1991 : an Israeli perspective / Shlomo Aronson with the assistance of Oded Brosh
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages)
Series SUNY series in Israeli studies
SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Contents Strategy, history, and politics -- The American paradigm and early efforts to limit proliferation -- The Israeli paradigm: American controlled opacity? -- American intervention -- The 1967 war -- The road to the Yom Kippur War -- The walls of Jericho -- Sadat's peace -- The doctrine of opaque nuclear monopoly -- Lebanon and the demise of the Begin-Sharon Cabinet -- From Lebanon to the Intifada -- The rebirth of Pan-Arabism? -- India, Pakistan, North Korea, Algeria, Iran, and the rest
Summary Annotation Aronson (political science, Hebrew U., Jerusalem) explains Israel's acquisition and political use of nuclear weapons as a central factor in its foreign policy over the last three decades, emphasizing Israeli and Arab perceptions of each other, the changing roles of the US and USSR, and the nuclear element in the Gulf War and the Intifada. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-369) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Nuclear weapons -- Middle East
Nuclear weapons -- Israel
Nuclear nonproliferation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
Military policy
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
SUBJECT Middle East -- Military policy
Israel -- Military policy
Subject Israel
Middle East
Form Electronic book
Author Brosh, Oded
ISBN 0585087946
9780585087948
0791412075
9780791412077
0791412083
9780791412084
0791495345
9780791495346