nuclear ambiguity
description: Israel maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity regarding its nuclear weapons capability, neither confirming nor denying possession, as a strategy to maintain strategic balance in the region without provoking neighbouring states or a regional arms race
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Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk · 29 Apr 2013
nuclear weapons?” Avner Cohen, Israel and the Bomb (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 93–94. 53 On September 26, 1969, a policy of Israeli nuclear ambiguity was agreed upon by Pres. Nixon and PM Golda Meir. It remained secret until revealed by journalist Aluf Benn in 1991. Avner Cohen and Marvin
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Miller, “Bringing Israel’s Bomb Out of the Basement: Has Nuclear Ambiguity Outlived Its Shelf Life?,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2010. Cohen has drawn parallels between Israel’s policy and Iran’s possible nuclear ambitions: “It is
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words
was to stop Russia from responding to all ballistic missile attacks as if they were nuclear? Warner conceded “the point that Streltsov had made about ‘nuclear ambiguity’—it would be extremely difficult to determine the payload, whether nuclear or non-nuclear, while a strategic missile was in flight. But he recalled that
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
by Max Blumenthal · 27 Nov 2012 · 840pp · 224,391 words
tone. “It’s the best country in the world. It made the desert bloom and invented the cherry tomato and the disk-on-key and nuclear ambiguity. You happy?” I flashed him a big, all-American thumbs up sign. “Yaaaaa!” the Russian kid exclaimed, pumping his fist. He did not understand a