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April 5, 2016

Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Haven’t Led to Regional Proliferation

And there’s no reason to give them up.

While Jerusalem has never officially acknowledged possession of nuclear weapons, there is little doubt in anyone’s mind that it has them. Critics of Israeli “nuclear ambiguity” argue that it has encouraged other Middle Eastern states to pursue such weapons and interfered with global nonproliferation efforts. Refuting this contention, Robert Farley also defends the Jewish state’s reasons for possessing a nuclear arsenal:

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April 5, 2016

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