May/June 2006 pp. 22-30 (vol. 62, no. 3) © 2006 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Israel crosses the threshold http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj06cohen
By Avner Cohen and William Burr | May/June 2006
When President Richard Nixon took office, he was confronted with evidence that Israel would soon have nuclear weapons. Now, with the aid of recently declassified documents, Avner Cohen and William Burr recount the untold story of the tense debate that erupted in the Nixon administration over whether Israel should be prevented from crossing the nuclear threshold. Nixon's final decisions would form the basis for the U.S.-Israeli policy of "don't ask, don't tell" that Cohen and Burr argue is now a burdensome anomaly. (Credit: Oliver F. Atkins) http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj06cohen