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Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East (Paperback)
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Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
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Egyptian efforts to acquire long-range surface-to-surface missiles
in the early 1960s carry important lessons for our time, when
weapons of mass destruction and charges of politicizing
intelligence are key issues. This new study traces the history of
the early Egyptian ballistic missile program, which began with the
successful recruitment of German scientists who had experience in
Hitler's V1 and V2 missile projects. Yet even as these Germans
began their work on developing missiles for Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Israeli intelligence was busy collecting
information on their activities. Indeed, this intelligence sparked
a crisis in the Israeli leadership; Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and other top Israeli
officials anxiously debated strategies to grapple with this new
threat to their national security. Ultimately, they adopted a
multifaceted approach that included intimidation of the scientists
and their families, appeals to the West German government to order
the scientists' recall and, finally, an attempt to involve the U.S.
government in the intricacies of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Drawing
extensively on material from recently declassified U.S. government
documents, this new major work demonstrates how Nasser's missile
program played an instrumental role in cementing the U.S.-Israeli
national security relationship. The book concludes with several key
lessons that can help stem the global proliferation of advanced
weapons. This book will be of great interest to scholars of
proliferation, international relations, the Middle East,
disarmament and security studies in general.
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