"This was a difficult book for
                                        Avner Cohen to write. As an
                                        Israeli, he had to break the code
                                        of silence that surrounds the
                                        discussion of nuclear weapons in
                                        his homeland. But he has done a
                                        superb job of laying out the
                                        political history of Israel's
                                        nuclear program from its
                                        foundation in 1950 through the
                                        acceptance by the United States of
   [Israel and the Bomb]                Israel as a nuclear-weapon state
                                        in 1970. Cohen has achieved the
                                        impossible. With ''Israel and the
                                        Bomb,'' he has written a scholarly
                                        treatise that includes over 1,200
                                        footnotes, yet reads like a
                                        novel."

                                        --Lawrence Korb
                                        New York Times Book Review
                                        Nov. 1, 1998

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