Avner Cohen

Avner Cohen is a professor in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies (NPTS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California. He is the author of Israel and the Bomb and The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain With the Bomb.

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Palestinians run across a dusty landscape through a breach in a high wire fence topped with barbed wire on the Israel-Gaza border.

How Israel’s Spies Failed—and Why Escalation Could Be Catastrophic
Analysis
Uri Bar-Joseph, Avner Cohen
Palestinian demonstrators burn portraits of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the slogan in Arabic "Down with the Deal of the Century" during a protest in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Jan. 31.

The Trump-Netanyahu Alliance Is Endangering Americans and Israelis
Argument
Avner Cohen, Jason Blazakis
vela-incident-nuclear-test-1979-illustration

Blast From the Past
Feature
William Burr, Avner Cohen, Lars-Erik De Geer, Victor Gilinsky, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Henry Sokolski, Leonard Weiss, Christopher Wright
President John F. Kennedy and Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion get together for a talk at the Waldorf Towers. (Photo By: Walter Kelleher/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

How the Israelis Hoodwinked JFK on Going Nuclear
Report
Avner Cohen, William Burr
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Don’t Like That Israel Has the Bomb? Blame Nixon.
Dept Of Secrets
Avner Cohen, William Burr
PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images

No More Exemptions
Argument
Avner Cohen, Shane Mason
Wikimedia Commons

Israel’s Secret Uranium Buy
Dept Of Secrets
William Burr, Avner Cohen
Getty images

The leader who was afraid to show up: Israel and the Nuclear Security Summit
The Middle East Channel
Avner Cohen
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