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Record Nr.

UNINA9910694559403321

Autore

Farr Warner D

Titolo

The third temple's holy of holies [[electronic resource] ] : Israel's nuclear weapons / / Warner D. Farr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : , : USAF Counterproliferation Center, Air War College, Air University, , [1999]

Collana

Counterproliferation papers. Future warfare series ; ; no. 2

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons - Israel

Nuclear weapons - Israel - History

Israel Military policy

Israel Foreign relations United States History

United States Foreign relations Israel History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 23, 2005).

"September 1999."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Abstract -- Introduction -- 1948-1962: With French cooperation -- 1963-1973: Seeing the project through to completion -- 1974-1999: Bringing the bomb up the basement stairs -- Appendix: Estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources ... Israel has most probably conducted several nuclear bomb tests. They have continued to modernize and vertically proliferate and are now one of the world's larger nuclear powers. Using 'bomb in the basement' nuclear opacity, Israel has been able to use its arsenal as a deterrent to the Arab world while not technically violating American nonproliferation requirements.