The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb

Avner Cohen

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Paper, 416 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13699-0
$25.00 / £17.50

October, 2010
Cloth, 416 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13698-3
$35.00 / £24.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Amimut as a National Nuclear Bargain

Abbreviations

Chronology

1. The Birth of Amimut

2. The Case for Amimut

3. Israel’s Nuclear Path: The Key Decisions

4. The Infrastructure of Amimut

5. The Citizenry: The Taboo Keepers

6. The Democratic Cost of Amimut: The Impact on the Citizenry

7. The Democratic Cost of Amimut: Governance

8. Domestic Reforms

9. Iran, the Fissile Materials Cutoff Treaty (FMCT), and Beyond

10. Toward a New Bargain

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Avner Cohen is a senior fellow at the Washington Office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has published on subjects as varied as nuclear proliferation and nuclear history, political theory, skepticism, and Israeli history. He is the author of Israel and the Bomb and the coeditor of Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity and The Institution of Philosophy.

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