02684nam 2200601 450 991082819060332120170919162335.01-4422-5326-6(CKB)3710000000615878(EBL)4452997(OCoLC)933766110(SSID)ssj0001631127(PQKBManifestationID)16378181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001631127(PQKBWorkID)14868776(PQKB)11622227(PQKBManifestationID)16268919(PQKBWorkID)14868777(PQKB)25039272(MiAaPQ)EBC4452997(DLC) 2016000178(EXLCZ)99371000000061587820160412h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSurviving amid chaos Israel's nuclear strategy /Louis René BeresLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2016.©20161 online resource (195 p.)Weapons of Mass DestructionIncludes index.1-78660-655-0 1-4422-5325-8 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.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 inWeapons of mass destruction series (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.)Nuclear weaponsIsraelNuclear weaponsGovernment policyIsraelIsraelMilitary policyNuclear weaponsNuclear weaponsGovernment policy355.02/17095694Beres Louis René675819MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828190603321Surviving amid chaos4078181UNINA