NPTG 8558A
Israel and the Bomb
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the study of Israel’s nuclear history and policy within the broader context of understanding the nuclear dimension of Middle East politics. The course focuses on the uniqueness and the exceptionality that constitutes Israel’s nuclear history and policy. By that uniqueness we mean the original policy which Israel devised to acquire and possess nuclear weapons that ultimately made Israel an exceptional case both vis-à-vis the United States non-proliferation policies and vis-a-vis the non-proliferation regime. That policy is known as Israel’s policy of “nuclear opacity” or “nuclear ambiguity,” under which Israel has never officially acknowledged to acquire or possess nuclear weapons, even though since 1970s Israel is universally presumed as a nuclear weapons state. The course ends with reflections about challenge that Israel’s nuclear uniqueness poses both to the United States nonproliferation policy and the non-proliferation regime as a whole.
- Schedule
- 6:00pm-9:00pm on Friday at CRAG CR10 (Feb 10, 2023 to Feb 10, 2023)
9:00am-5:00pm on Saturday at CRAG CR10 (Feb 11, 2023 to Feb 11, 2023)
9:00am-3:00pm on Sunday at CRAG CR10 (Feb 12, 2023 to Feb 12, 2023)
6:00pm-9:00pm on Friday at CRAG CR10 (Feb 24, 2023 to Feb 24, 2023)
9:00am-5:00pm on Saturday at CRAG CR10 (Feb 25, 2023 to Feb 25, 2023)
9:00am-3:00pm on Sunday at CRAG CR10 (Feb 26, 2023 to Feb 26, 2023) - Location
- Craig Building CR10
- Instructors
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Cohen, Avner
avnerc@middlebury.edu
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