The title of Hersh's book comes from Israel's notion that once they
have the Bomb, they are in a position to bring it all down on everyone if
ever they feel cornered. It's the ultimate in Israeli security as a nation-
state, if not for the security of humankind. Israel used nuclear blackmail
to force Kissinger and Nixon to airlift supplies during the 1973 Yom Kippur
war, and they passed U.S. secrets collected by Jonathan Pollard to the USSR
when it served their interests. The Bomb has been a hidden factor in U.S.-
Israeli relations ever since the Eisenhower administration, but this is
the first book to deal with Israeli relations from this perspective.
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