Exploring the Six Day War's Soviet Angle

publication coincided with the fortieth anniversary of the war. According to the authors' thesis, when the Soviets learned of Israel's intention to produce an atomic bomb in November 1965, they decided to prevent the Jewish state from acquiring this weapon. Consequently, it was decided to spark the flames of war in the region; to draw Israel into carrying out a strike against Egypt, thus turning it into an aggressor in world public opinion; and then to seize the moment and bomb the Israeli reactor.