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Article: Bombs away: how Israel got nukes--and set off today's Middle Eastern arms race.(On Political Books)(The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World)(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- March 1, 2006
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The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World By Michael Karpin Simon & Schuster, $26.00
When Israel successfully developed a nuclear bomb in the 60s, it inadvertently became a kind of role model for a motley crew of regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere. Being first off the block had big advantages for Israel, especially during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when the threat of a bomb may have helped keep its enemies at bay. But whether it's India, Pakistan, or the most recent nuclear aspirants, Iran and North Korea, the same scenario seems to play, or be playing, itself out with distressing regularity. A regime denies that it's ...