Shemuel Meir is an analyst and former head of the Arms
Control Branch in the Israel Defense Forces’ Strategic
Planning Department (AGAT) and was a scholar at Tel
Aviv University’s Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies.
Having pursued “gradual” disarmament outside the NPT while maintaining nuclear
ambiguity, Israel will have to face the question: “ambiguity vs. ambiguity” or “not
for us and not for them”?