The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East

From: Domes | Date: July 31, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Mohammed M. Aman
Domes
07-31-1995
The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East.

Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1992. 398 pages. $64.50 cloth (ISBN 0-7914-1207-5), $21.95 paper (ISBN 0-7914-1208-3).

The Middle East, according to former President George Bush, is dangerous place, especially in regard to nuclear weapons. It is a well-known fact that Israel has possessed a number of nuclear bombs more powerful than the one that devastated Hiroshima. According to U.N. experts, before the Gulf War and the destruction of its infrastructure, Iraq was just months away ...

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