{"product_id":"israel-and-the-bomb-historical-dictionaries-of-cities-of-9780231104821","title":"Israel and the Bomb (Historical Dictionaries of Cities of)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil now  there has been no detailed account of Israels nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors  leaks  and journalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb  Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive political history that draws on thousands of American and Israeli government documentsmost of them recently declassified and never before citedand more than one hundred interviews with key individuals who played important roles in this story. Cohen reveals that Israel crossed the nuclear weapons threshold on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War  yet it remains ambiguous about its nuclear capability to this day. What made this posture of \"opacity\" possible  and how did it evolve?  Cohen focuses on a two-decade period from about 1950 until 1970  during which David Ben-Gurions vision of making Israel a nuclear-weapon state was realized. He weaves together the story of the formative years of Israels nuclear program  from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952  to the alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology it needed  to the failure of American intelligence to identify the Dimona Project for what it was  to the negotiations between President Nixon and Prime Minister Meir that led to the current policy of secrecy. Cohen also analyzes the complex reasons Israel concealed its nuclear programfrom concerns over Arab reaction and the negative effect of the debate at home to consideration of Americas commitment to nonproliferation.  Israel and the Bomb highlights the key questions and the many potent issues surrounding Israels nuclear history. This book will be a critical resource for students of nuclear proliferation  Middle East politics  Israeli history  and American-Israeli relations  as well as a revelation for general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651933790261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231104820","price":132.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231104821.jpg?v=1781845994","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/israel-and-the-bomb-historical-dictionaries-of-cities-of-9780231104821","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}