The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East: Opacity, Theory, and Reality, 1960-1991 -- An Israeli Perspective

by Shlomo Aronson and Oded Brosh

Based on research from an array of American, Arab, British, French, German, and Israeli sources, this book provides a nuclear history of the world's most explosive region. Most significantly, it gives an exposition of Israel's acquisition and political use, or nonuse, of nuclear weapons as a central factor of its foreign policy in the 1960-1991 period. In stressing the factor of nuclear weapons, the author highlights an often-neglected aspect of Israeli...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791412075
• ISBN13: 9780791412077
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 398 Pages