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Recounting the dialogue and related diplomatic activity that took place during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the Ben-Gurion and Eshkol premierships, this work recalls how, in the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to achieve a nuclear option. It discusses how France initially supported the daring project and the attempt stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israel s strategic position vis-a-vis its neighboring Arab states and the wider international community. It recalls how Israel was adamantly opposed to the United States request to allow external...

In the years following the Yom Kippur War, many studies addressed the internal and international political background prior to the war, attempting to determine causes and steps by political players and parties in Israel, Egypt, and the United States. But to date there has been no comprehensive study based on archival materials and other primary sources. Classified documents from that period have recently become available and it is now possible to examine in depth a crucial period in Middle East history generally and Israeli history in particular. The authors provide a penetrating and...