Surviving Amid Chaos - Israel''s Nuclear Strategy

Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclear ambiguity policy (the "bomb in the basement") as they consider such urgent and overlapping survival issues as regional nuclear proliferation, Jihadist terror-group intersections with enemy states, rationality or irrationality of state and sub-state adversaries, assassination or "targeted killing," preemption, and the probable effects of a "Cold War II" between Russia and the United States. Israel must develop a strategic posture that will involve a suitably coherent and refined nuclear strategy. This book critically examines Israel's rapidly evolving nuclear strategy in light of these issues and explains how it underscores the overarching complexity of strategic interactions in the Middle East.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Core Requirement of Nuclear Weapons
Chapter 2: Refining Strategic Choices
Chapter 3: Deciphering Enemy Intentions and Capabilities
Chapter 4: Preserving a Sensible Samson Option
Chapter 5: Convergences of Law and Strategy
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Index
About the Author

About the author

Louis René Beres is emeritus professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was educated at Princeton University (Ph.D., 1971).

Summary

Now facing an unprecedented configuration of threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their nuclear ambiguity policy and work to develop a strategic posture with a refined nuclear strategy. This book examines Israel's evolving strategy and explains how it underscores the complexity of strategic interactions in the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Louis Ren Beres, Louis Rene Beres, Louis René Beres
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2016
• EAN: 9781442253254
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5325-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Weapons of Mass Destruction; Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Arms negotiation & control