Matthew Duss dissects a new book on the nuclear partnership between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa:
Sasha Polakow-Suransky‘s book is the result of an extraordinary amount of research, carried out over six years and including a number of personal interviews with aging Israeli and South African sources. The author was also able to make use of newly available South African archives, many of which were declassified over the objections of the Israeli government. As Polakow-Suransky notes, the current government in Johannesburg was unsurprisingly not interested in covering up Israel’s past support for apartheid.
