first edition Trade Paperback
1998 · New York
by Cohen, Avner
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x1. First printing. Minor general wear. 1998 Trade Paperback. xviii, 470 pp. Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's 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 documentsâmost of them recently declassified and never before citedâand 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? (Inventory #: 2330093)