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The Chief of Staff is on the job for three, four, years. In time, I was able to win the trust and confidence of the other scientists, engineers and senior personnel engaged in the project. He was the first to discuss the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Ben Gurion. They were among the first to receive doctorates from the Hebrew University, doing interdisciplinary work in organic chemistry and biology. His only public reference to the nuclear program was in a speech to the Knesset in December , in which he talked of the nuclear project's "peaceful purposes. Customers who bought this item also bought.

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Unlike the Kennedy administration, Lyndon Johnson seems to have been willing to accept Israel's nuclear plans, as long as they were not public. Ben Gurion believed that Israeli scientists could provide the ultimate answer to Israel's avber problem.

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It was difficult at times to distinguish Dostrovsky's involvement in science from his involvement in defense projects. On the 18th of July,the New York Times announced that Israel was a nuclear power, and although both Israel's official spokespersons and the State Department denounced the article as "speculative" and "inaccurate", neither denied it p. Eshkol decorated him cphen Israel's isael award for contribution to the security of the State, and nominated himself, in his capacity as prime minister, to be the new chairman of the IAEC.

What made this posture of "opacity" possible, and how did it evolve?

He served as prime minister for fourteen years, longer than any other Israeli prime minister. There is no reason why the genius of science would not blossom and flourish in his native land. Shimon Peres exploited the international opportunity to make the dream into a reality. This book led him to encounter problems with the Israeli censor, and provoked substantial legal difficulties upon isael return to Israel to give a keynote speech at an academic conference.

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As part of the Atoms for Peace program, the United States indicated its readiness to sell Israel a small experimental reactor under U. Cohen has been critical of what he considers Benjamin Netanyahu 's deployment of the Holocaust for political ends. September 30, Sold by: This is the thought aavner guides the Arab leaders. On 27 Juneeleven days after he announced his resignation, Ben Gurion delivered a farewell address to the employees of the Armaments Development Authority RAFAEL in which, without referring to nuclear weapons, he provided the justification for the nuclear project: Israeli military planners have always considered a scenario in which a united Arab military coalition launched a war isrsel Israel with the aim of liberating Palestine sirael destroying the Jewish state.

The late Jenka Yevgeni Ratner, an engineer with an artist's touch who was legendary at HEMED for his knowledge of explosives, was in charge of several aspects of the nuclear project since the mids.

For this reason, my name was never included in any formal committee created in the area of atomic energy. Bergmann no longer enjoyed the trust and authority he had under Ben Gurion, and in June he offered his resignation to Eshkol. He held these three posts until his final resignation in April As Peres would put it, "Ben Gurion believed that Science could compensate us for what Nature has denied us.

Yet even if Israel's policy was chiefly designed in response to US pressure, the bomb was build because of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Shimon Peres, who made the decisions on behalf of Ben Gurion, consulted many experts, often without Bergmann's presence.

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And science, if a lay person like myself could say, starts from the brain. Learn more about Amazon Prime. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Without access to the pertinent classified archival materials, it is difficult to say when exactly Ben Gurion began to think about nuclear weapons as a practical option. Cohe Columbia University Press All rights reserved.

And the Jewish brain does not disappoint; Jewish science does not disappoint.

His seminal work, Israel and the Bombwhich chronicled the Israeli nuclear programwas published in Peres commented that Freier was the kind of person the project needed in France. Then there were those who played an tbe role in implementing the project once the political decision was made. The publisher says " See all Editorial Reviews.

I will add to this comment once I finish reading it. Israel's nuclear project was conceived tne the shadow of the Holocaust, and the lessons of the Holocaust provided the justification and motivation for the project. Ben Gurion trusted me.