Strategic Studies Institute Sees Possible Pressure on Israel to Use ‘nuclear Option’

The Institute of Strategic Studies has expressed concern that “continuing instability in the Middle East arms race might increase pressures on Israel one day to exercise her nuclear option.” The statement was contained in a survey of Israel’s diplomatic and military position in the Mideast conflict, just published by the Institute. The survey said, “It was not quite clear whether the American F-4 Phantoms deal would merely begin another round of competitive arms supply or would reinforce the anxieties of the Great Powers to arrange some form of arms control in the Middle East.”