Avner Cohen

Books

• Israel and the Bomb.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1998, 472 pages.  Translated into Hebrew in a slightly enlarged edition (including a new preface and epilogue), Yisrael Ve-haptzaza (Tel Aviv: Schocken Publishing House, 2000) html

• The Nuclear Age: A Chapter in Moral History (in Hebrew).  Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1989

• The Institution of Philosophy. Co-edited with Marcelo Dascal. La-Salle: Open Court, 1989

• Humanity Under the Shadow of the Bomb (in Hebrew). Editor.  Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Ha-meuc­had Publishing House, 1987

• Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity.  Co-edited with Steven Lee.  Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1986

Monographs

• The Nuclear Question and the Peace Process: A New Outlook (in Hebrew).  Efal: Yad Tabenkin, 1995, 61 pages.  (A revised and expanded Hebrew version of the MIT/DACS Working Paper).

• Toward a New Middle East: Rethinking the Nuclear Question.  MIT/DACS Working Paper, November 1994. 

Journal Articles

• “Israel and Chemical and Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence and Arms Control," The Non-Proliferation Review, forthcoming.  pdf

• "Before the Beginning: The Early History of the Israeli Nuclear Project (1949-1954)."  Israel Studies, 3, No. 1 (spring 1998), 112-139.

• "Assessing Virtual Nuclear Arsenals."  Survival 40, no. 1 (spring 1998), 129-44. Co-authored with Joseph Pilat.

• "Israel and the Evolution of American Nonproliferation Policy: The Critical Decade" (1958-1968)."  Nonproliferation Review  Vol. 5 No. 2 (winter 1998): 1-19,

• "Dimona, Cairo and the June 1967 War."  Middle East Journal 50, no. 2 (spring 1996): 190-210; a shortened Hebrew translation appears in the IDF quarterly, Ma’archot, No. 360 (August 1998), 1-14.

• "Israel's Nuclear History: The Untold Kennedy-Eshkol Dimona Correspondence."  Journal of Israeli History 16, no. 2 (summer 1996): 158-94.

• "Kennedy, Ben Gurion and the Battle Over Dimona: April-June 1963" (in Hebrew).  Iyunim Bi-Tkumat-Israel 6 (1996): 110-146. 

• "The Nuclear Equation in a New Middle East."  Nonproliferation Review 2,no. 2 (winter 1995): 12-39.

• "Stumbling Into Opacity: The United States, Israel and the Atom 1960-1963."  Security Studies 4, no. 2 (winter 1994-95): 195-241.

• "Most Favored Nation."  Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 51, no. 1 (January-February 1995): 44-53.

• "The Nuclear Issue in the Middle East in a New World Order."  Contemporary Security Policy 6, no. 1 (1995): 49-69.

• "How to Think about--and Implement--Nuclear Arms Control in the Middle East."  Washington Quarterly (spring 1993): 101-113.  Reprinted in Brad Roberts, ed.  U.S. Security in an Uncertain Era.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.

• "Nuclear Shadows in the Middle East: Prospects for Arms Control in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis."  Security Studies 1, no. 1 (autumn 1991): 54-77.  With Marvin Miller. 

• "On Reading Postmodern Philosophy: Hiley, Redner and the End of Philosophy."  Praxis International 9, no. 4 (January 1990): 381-399.

• "Opaque Nuclear Proliferation."  Journal of Strategic Studies 13, no. 3 (September 1990): 14-44.  With Benjamin Frankel. 

• "Israel's Nuclear Monopoly Revisited."  Journal of Strategic Studies 13, no. 3 (September 1990): 64-76.  With Marvin Miller. 

• "Skepticism and Angst: The Case of David Hume."  Manuscripto 11 (October 1988): 49-66. 

• "Lackey on Nuclear Deterrence: A Public Policy Critique or Applied-Ethics Analysis."  Ethics (January 1987): 457-472.

• "Ever Since Hiroshima: Humanity Under the Shadow of the Bomb" (in Hebrew).  Zmanim (1985): 158-166.

• "Descartes, Consciousness and Depersonalization."  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 9, no. 1 (1984): 7-27.

• "Sextus Empiricus: Classical Skepticism as a Therapy."  Philosophical Forum 15, no. 4 (1984): 405-424.

• "Kierkegaard as a Psychologist of Philosophy."  The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13, no. 2 (1982): 103-119.

• "Certainty, Doubt and Anxiety: Towards a Theory of the Psychology of Metaphysics."  Metaphilosophy 12, no. 2 (1981): 113-143.

Opinion Columns

• "Fictional Opacity" Ha-aretz, June 24, 2002 Hebrew: html  English: html

Book Chapters

• "The Men and the Ethos that Made the Israeli Nuclear Program Possible.”  In The Dynamics of Middle East Nuclear Proliferation, Editors Steven Spiegel and Michael Blakley, forthcoming.

• "Nuclear Arms in Crisis Under Secrecy: Israel and the 1967 and 1973 Wars."  In Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Eds. Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan and James J. Wirtz, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), 104-124.

• "Regional Security and Arms Control in the Middle East: The Nuclear Dimension,” in Middle East Security Issues, Editor Barry R. Schneider, 77-108.  Maxwell Air Force Base: Air University Press, December 1999.

• "The Lessons of Osiraq and the American Counterproliferation Debate."  In International Perspectives on Counterproliferation, Eds. Mitchell Reiss and Harald Muller.  The Woodrow Wilson Center, Working paper No. 99, 1994.

• "Patterns of Nuclear Opacity in the Middle East: Understanding the Past, Implications for the Future."  In Aurora Papers 16: Regional Approaches to Curbing Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East and South Asia, ed. Tariq Rauf, 13-54.  Ottawa: The Canadian Center for Global Security, December 1992.

• "Nuclear Weapons, Opacity and Israeli Democracy."  In National Security and Democracy in Israel, ed. Avner Yaniv, 197-225.  Boulder: Lynne Riener Publishers, 1992.  Reprinted in Benjamin Nueberger and Ilan Ben Ami, Eds.  Democratia Ve-Bitachon Leumi Be-Yisrael.  Tel Aviv: Open University Press, 1996, 594-623.

• "Curbing Regional Arms Competition: The Case of the Middle East."  In Non-Proliferation in A Disarming World, ed. Sadruddin Aga Khan, 119-123.  Geneva: Bellerive Foundation, 1990.

• "The End of Philosophy: An Anatomy of a Debate."  In The Institution of Philosophy, Eds. Avner Cohen and Marcelo Dascal, 111-139.  La Salle: Open Court, 1990.

• "Morality, Just-War and Nuclear Weapons" (in Hebrew).  In Humanity Under the Shadow of the Bomb, ed. Cohen, 1987, 109-130.  This is an expanded Hebrew version of "The Nuclear Predicament," 1986.

• "Israel and the Bomb" (in Hebrew).  In Humanity Under the Shadow of the Bomb, ed. Cohen, 1987, 82-190.

• "Appendix: Reflection on the Vanunu Affair" (in Hebrew).  In Humanity Under the Shadow of the Bomb, ed. Cohen, 1987, 236-242.

• "Reflections on Realism in the Nuclear Age."  Realism and Morality: International Ethics in the Nuclear Age, Eds. Kenneth Kipnis and Diana Meyers, 220-238.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1987.

• "Deterrence, Holocaust and Nuclear Weapons: A Non-Parochial Outlook on the Israeli Nuclear Dilemma."  In Security or Armageddon: Israel Nuclear Strategy, ed. Louis Rene Beres, 173-190.  Lexington: Lexington Books, 1986.

• "The Nuclear Predicament."  In Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity, Eds. Cohen and Lee, 1986, 1-45.  With Steven Lee. 

 Short Articles:

• “The Bomb that Never Is.”  The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.  Vol. 56,  No. 3 (May-June 2000): 22-23. 

• “And Then There Was One.”  The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Vol. 54, No. 5 (September-October 1998): 

• "Peres: Peacemaker, Nuclear Pioneer."  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 52, no. 3 (May-June 1996): 16-17.

•  "A Sacred Matter."  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 49, no. 5 (June 1993): 39-41.

• "Did Nukes Nudge the PLO?"  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 49, no. 12 (December 1993): 11-13.

• "The Israeli Press Covers, and then Covers Up, the Bomb."  Deadline (a bulletin of the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University) 6, no. 2 (summer 1991): 17-19.  

• "Israel's Nuclear Ambiguity."  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 43, no. 2 (March 1987): 15-19.

 Book Reviews

• Review of Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy, by Russell Hardin, Ed.  Philosophia, 1987. 

• Numerous reviews featured in "Book Notes" for Ethics, 1985-1987. 

• Review of The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza, by Richard H. Popkin.  The Journal of the History of Philosophy 21, no. 1 (January 1983): 102-103.

Articles on Avner Cohen's Affairs

• "Israel: Censoring the Past," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article by Aluf Benn, July/August 2001 html

• "Israeli author queried on nuclear security," Boston Globe, by Dan Ephron, March 14, 2001 html

• "Avner Cohen and Israeli nuclear security," from Secrecy News by the FAS Project on Government, March 12, 2001 html

• "A Challenge To Israel's Nuclear Blind Spot," Washington Post article by Jonathan Broder, March 11, 2001 html

• "How long can nuclear ambiguity last?", Ha'aretz, by Zev Schiff, August 24, 2000 html

• "Obsessive secrecy undermines democracy," Ha'aretz, by Reuven Pedatzur, August 8, 2000 html

• "Fighting to preserve the tattered veil of secrecy," Ha'aretz, by Ronen Bergman, August 6, 2000 html

• "Avner Cohen on Israeli Nuclear Secrecy," letter to the Legal Adviser to the Israeli Government, June 25, 2000 html

 Miscellaneous

• About 70 articles, op-eds and book-reviews in Israeli and American newspapers and other non-academic publications in the period (1979-present).  Among the publications: New York Times,  Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe,,The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, Politika, Ha'aretz and Davar.

• Media coverage for Israel and the Bomb html

Reviews of works by Avner Cohen

• "Blast, from the past to the present," Ha'aretz, by Yirmiyahu Yovel, July 28, 2000 html

Interviews with  Avner Cohen

• Global Security Newswire, December 14, 2001 html

Works in Progress

• "Israel's Last Taboo," A book for KETER Publishers (Jerusalem), 2003.