![]() | Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets'' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War Subjects: Israel-Arab War 1967 -- Diplomatic history; Israel-Arab War 1967 -- Causes; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Israel; Israel -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Arab Countries; Arab Countries -- Foreign relation; A groundbreaking history that radically changes our understanding of the Six-Day War, how it started, and what its adversaries were willing to do to win Ginor and Remez's startling account details how the Soviet-Arab onslaught was to be unleashed once Israel had been drawn into action and was branded as the aggressor. The Soviets had submarine-based nuclear missiles poised for use against Israel in case it already possessed and tried to use an atomic device, and the USSR prepared and actually began a marine landing on Israel's shores backed by strategic bombers and fighter squadrons. They sent their most advanced, still-secret aircraft, the MiG-25 Foxbat, on provocative sorties over Israel's Dimona nuclear complex to prepare the planned attack on it, and to scare Israel into making the first strike. It was only the unpredicted devastation of Israel's response that narrowly thwarted the Soviet design. As journalists for Israel's leading broadcast and print media and as historical researchers, Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez collaborated for 20 years to expose the extent of Soviet military involvement in the Middle East. |
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