Arab Perceptions of Israel's Nuclear Posture, 1960-1967

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ID12454292
AuthorsAriel Levite (corresponding author), Ariel E Levite, Emily B Landau (0009-0009-3007-2535)
Year1996
Volume1
Issue1
Pages34-59
Publication date1996-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIsrael Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-9513 • E-ISSN: 1527-201X
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/isr.1996.1.1.34
OpenAlexW1993982868
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited3

The SHADOW OF THE ISRAELI nuclear program has been hovering over the strategic scene of the Middle East for many years. In the course of this period it has attracted considerable Arab attention, and has been the focus of extensive media coverage as well as public debate in academic and elite circles. This public debate has focused on three main facets of the issue: i. The capabilities that Israelis developing in the nuclear domain, and the likely motivation that is guiding its activities in this realm; 2. The immediate, as well as long-term, ramifications of the Israeli nuclear program, especially its implications on and for the Middle East, the Arab world, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and specific Arab players, most notably Egypt and the Palestinians; 3. How the Arabs as a whole and individual Arab players should respond to this challenge. The origins of this public debate go back some thirty-five years, to the early I960s. More precisely, it was the middle of December 1960 that news of the Israeli construction, with French assistance, of a sizable heavy water nuclear research reactor near Dimona first broke out in the Western me

Epistemology · Perception · Political science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Philosophy · Psychology

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