MWI – THE SIX DAY WAR AND THE NUCLEAR COUP THAT NEVER WAS – 29 June 2017

The Six Day War and the Nuclear Coup that Never Was

“On the eve of the June 1967 war in the Middle East, a small group of men in the Israeli elite considered a doomsday scenario. They all supported Israel having an overt nuclear strategy, but the dovish prime minister, Levi Eshkol, had resisted. Now, with war looming, they felt that their hour had come. Behind the scenes, these bureaucrats, scientists and officers prepared the ground for using Israel’s ultimate weapon: the nuclear bomb.”