RE: war in Irak and the Franco/German resistance

> Certainly if faced with what was basically a war of survival for
> them I don’t see why they wouldn’t use nuclear weapons to defend
> themselves. The only previous use of Nuclear weapons in war was to
> reduce casualties. If that is acceptable then surely national
> survival must also be an acceptable reason.

The question is not whether Israel would have used nukes to survive, it certainly would have. What is unknown is the extent of the danger perceived by Israel’s top brass and the time and whether nukes were actually deemed necessary. On the one hand you’ve got comment supposedly made by certain people of the imminent fall of the state, and on the other is the fact that Israel eventually pulled through without the need for the bomb.

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