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1 Louis René Beres, `The “Peace Process” and Israel's Nuclear Strategy', Strategic Review , vol. 23, no. 1, Winter 1995, pp. 35-47.
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2 Margret Johannsen, Amerikanische Nuklearwaffen in Europa (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1994), pp. 53-130.
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3 Beres (see note 1 above).
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4 Shai Feldman, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), p. 129.
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5 Ibid., pp. 128-129.
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6 For further details, see Margret Johannsen, `Armaments and Arms Control in the Middle East in the Context of Global Security', in Sonja Hegazy, ed., Egyptian and German Perspectives on Security in the Mediterranean (Cairo: FES, 1998), pp. 49-72.
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7 In a thought-provoking article, Avner Cohen and Joseph F. Pilat recently discussed the possibility of preserving nuclear deterrence without possessing an actual nuclear arsenal. See Avner Cohen & Joseph F. Pilat, `Assessing Virtual Arsenals', Survival , vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 129-144.
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8 The decision of the Israeli government to give in to US pressure and participate in the negotiations on a fissile cut-off in the framework of the United Nations Disarmament Conference could be taken as evidence that Israel is prepared to move in that direction and modify its scepticism of arms control agreements under the auspices of the UN.
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9 For more detail see Avner Cohen & Marvin Miller, `How to Think About - and Implement - Nuclear Arms Control in the Middle East', Washington Quarterly , vol. 16, no. 2, 1993, pp. 101-113.