The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.


Preemption: A knife that cuts both ways, p. 100 (published 2007-2-17).

Alan Dershowitz Quotes

The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear...

The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear...

The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear...

The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear...