In the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to
achieve a nuclear option. Initially supported by France, this
daring project stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israel's
strategic position vis-a-vis its neighboring Arab states and the
wider international community. A nuclear program was driven by the
firm conviction of David Ben-Gurion that Israel's existence could
be guaranteed only with the aid of such a deterrent. The ensuing
nuclear defense strategy was upheld by successive Israeli
governments. Adamantly opposed to America's request to allow
external supervision of its nuclear activity, Israel labored to
avert a potentially disastrous rift with its one superpower ally.
Israel's Nuclear Option recounts the dialogue and related
diplomatic activity that took place during the Kennedy and Johnson
administrations and the Ben-Gurion and Eshkol premierships. The
intense and often difficult discussions, which pitted Israel's
security concerns against the United States' determined goal to
stem nuclear proliferation, eventually produced a set of formal and
informal strategic understandings regarding Israel's nuclear
deterrence.
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