Surviving amid chaos : Israel's nuclear strategy / / Louis René Beres

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828190603321
• Autore: Beres Louis René
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4422-5326-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Collana: Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Disciplina: 355.02/17095694
• Soggetti: Nuclear weapons - Israel; Nuclear weapons - Government policy - Israel; Israel Military policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Israel's nuclear doctrine: the core requirement of nuclear weapons -- Israel's nuclear doctrine: refining strategic choices -- Israel's nuclear doctrine: deciphering enemy intentions and capabilities -- Israel's nuclear doctrine: preserving a sensible "Samson option" -- Israel's nuclear doctrine: convergencies of law and strategy.
• Sommario/riassunto: Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclear ambiguity policy (the ""bomb in the basement"") as they consider such urgent and overlapping survival issues as regional nuclear proliferation, Jihadist terror-group intersections with enemy states, rationality or irrationality of state and sub-state adversaries, assassination or ""targeted killing,"" preemption, and the probable effects of a ""Cold War II"" between Russia and the United States. Israel must develop a strategic posture that will in