On the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War, the 乐鱼 体育 has released groundbreaking historical documents and testimonies by key Israeli figures which reveal the underlying nuclear dimension of the crisis.
On the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War, the 乐鱼 体育 has released groundbreaking historical documents and testimonies by key Israeli figures which reveal the underlying nuclear dimension of the crisis.
The collection includes the testimony of the late General Yitzhak Ya鈥檃kov, which reveals for the first time the existence of a crash effort to assemble Israel鈥檚 first nuclear device. This and other materials contained in the collection provide a rare glimpse into the series of events and the mindsets of Israel鈥檚 top policymakers on the eve of the war.
The materials are part of the Avner Cohen Collection at the 乐鱼 体育鈥檚 Nuclear Proliferation International History Project and are available publicly online.
Cohen, who conducted many interviews with General Ya鈥檃kov, led the team of scholars responsible for collecting and editing the archive. He is a Global Fellow at Wilson, a professor of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), and the author of Israel and the Bomb.
covered the release of the collection and its insight into Israel鈥檚 鈥渄oomsday operation鈥 in a front-page article on June 4.
乐鱼 体育 also marked the anniversary of the war with a high-level panel discussion on the theme 鈥Fifty Years Since 1967: What Have We Learned about Arab-Israeli Peacemaking?鈥
The event featured four seasoned observers of the Arab-Israeli conflict and was moderated by 乐鱼 体育 Vice President Aaron David Miller.
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