The Third Temple's Holy of Holies
Subtitle: Israel's nuclear weapons
By: Warner D. Farr
Contributors: USAF Counterproliferation Center
Series: Counterproliferation papers. Future warfare series -- no. 2; Future warfare series (Counterproliferation papers) -- no. 2
Publisher: USAF Counterproliferation Center, Air University
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; History; Military policy; Foreign relations
Other titles: Israel's nuclear weapons
Description: Abstract:  "This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources ... Israel has most probably conducted several nuclear bomb tests.  They have continued to modernize and vertically proliferate and are now one of the world's larger nuclear powers.  Using 'bomb in the basement' nuclear opacity, Israel has been able to use its arsenal as a deterrent to the Arab world while not technically violating American nonproliferation requirements."
Notes: "September 1999"

Includes bibliographical references: (p. 25-34)
Table of contents: title: Abstract; title: Introduction; title: 1948-1962: With French cooperation; title: 1963-1973: Seeing the project through to completion; title: 1974-1999: Bringing the bomb up the basement stairs.  Appendix: Estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal.