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Sansone e la Guerra fredda

La capacità nucleare israeliana fra le due superpotenze (1953-1963)
  • Matteo Gerlini,

The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by Israel has been defined as the "Samson option", since such an eventuality would have led to the death of all the modern Philistines, that is the enemies of the State. Instead, if we interpret the circumstances and the events that marked Israel's achievement of the nuclear option through the history of international relations, then it can be seen as an element of the post-war construction of the Middle East, that is a passage in that Middle-Eastern Cold War that had such an influence on the confrontation between the superpowers. Through the use of previously unpublished archive sources and an attentive bibliographic review, the author traces through the 1953-1963 decade the construction of a Middle-Eastern American order that was created at the expense of Arab nationalism and the Soviet influence, partly as a result of the intervention of Washington in the Israeli nuclear option.

  • Keywords:
  • Guerra fredda,
  • Storia,
  • Storia contemporanea,
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Matteo Gerlini

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8374-1618

Matteo Gerlini performs teaching and research activity in the history of international relations in the "Cesare Alfieri" Faculty of Political Science. He has contributed essays and articles to both Italian and international publications, and collaborates with the "Machiavelli" Inter-University Centre on the study of the Cold War, with the Study Centre for Complex Dynamics of the University of Florence and with the Nuclear Security programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Book Title

Sansone e la Guerra fredda

Book Subtitle

La capacità nucleare israeliana fra le due superpotenze (1953-1963)

Authors

Matteo Gerlini

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

130

Publication Year

2010

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© 2010 Author(s)

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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IT

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Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-8453-517-7

ISBN Print

978-88-8453-504-7

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978-88-8453-517-7

eISBN (xml)

978-88-9273-715-0

Series Title

Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca

Series ISSN

2704-6249

Series E-ISSN

2704-5870

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