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written by his military aide. “The Prime Minister

and conceivably a nuclear warhead in the future.

Rabin and I had talked through the arguments for and

only whether such an operation might seriously be considered by the

with the initial aim of seeing whether it was really workable.

he and a small group of officers in the sayeret began working

but had come up with the outline of a plan he felt

he retained facilities to produce chemical weapons. He was trying to

in addition to his unabated desire to acquire nuclear

foreign newspaper reports in the weeks after the training

however. It occurred during a dry run for an

or stupidity.” What happened at the military

key to our ability to fight and win a war. But while we still

accuracy and impact of the Scuds dropped

the very fact of a military presence on the ground made

he had briefed American commanders on an anti-Scud operation by

but that we had the military capability to do so. So I told

where Misha himself lived. He immediately excused

an attack made absolute sense. Even if we didn’t succeed in

it reminded me of how my father had spoken to me