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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821445303321

Autore

Aronson Shlomo <1936->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1992

ISBN

0-7914-9534-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BroshOded

Disciplina

355/.033056

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons - Middle East

Nuclear weapons - Israel

Nuclear nonproliferation

Middle East Military policy

Israel Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-369) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.