The Politics and strategy of nuclear weapons in the Middle East : opacity, theory, and reality, 1960-1991 : an Israeli perspective /

The Politics and strategy of nuclear weapons in the Middle East : opacity, theory, and reality, 1960-1991 : an Israeli perspective /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Aronson, Shlomo, 1936-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in Israeli studies SUNY series in Israeli studies.
Subject:	Nuclear weapons -- Middle East. Nuclear weapons -- Israel. Nuclear nonproliferation. Military policy. Nuclear nonproliferation. Nuclear weapons. Middle East -- Military policy. Israel -- Military policy. Israel. Middle East. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11104392

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Other authors / contributors:	Brosh, Oded.
ISBN:	0585087946 9780585087948 0791412075 9780791412077 0791412083 9780791412084 9780791495346
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-369) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation Aronson (political science, Hebrew U., Jerusalem) explains Israel's acquisition and political use of nuclear weapons as a central factor in its foreign policy over the last three decades, emphasizing Israeli and Arab perceptions of each other, the changing roles of the US and USSR, and the nuclear element in the Gulf War and the Intifada. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Other form:	Print version: Aronson, Shlomo, 1936- Politics and strategy of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992 0791412075

Table of Contents:

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.