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Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War. By Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 304 pp. $26.
Foxbats over Dimona is a welcome addition to the history of the Soviet role in the 1967 Six-Day War and the USSR's strategic deception. The return of Russia's adversarial stance towards the West makes it particularly relevant.
Through archival work and interviews, the authors persuasively argue that the Soviet role in triggering the Six-Day War was greater and more decisive...