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- Golan, Decision Making, pp. 709, 816. It later transpired that the ship had been hit in
Tartus. Rozin, “Voyna sudnogo dnya,” Chapter 8. - Latypov, “V efire”; Vasiliev, Rossiya na Blizhnem i Srednem Vostoke, pp. 111–12. IAF attacks
on central Damascus began on 9 October, after Syrian Frog missiles hit an Israeli airbase;
http://www.iaf.org.il/843-13289-HE/IAF.aspx - Evgeny Lashenko, interviewed in Komlev, “Voyna u piramid.”
- Razinkov, “Siriya: Goryachii oktyabr’.”
- Dudchenko, “Voyna Sudnogo dnya.” Peres became defense minister on 3 June 1974. We
have not found such a statement in contemporary publications or the Knesset record, but
Israeli censorship may have deleted them. - “Sovetskie voennnye sovetniki, pogibshie v Sirii,” http://www.hubara-rus.ru/heroes.html
- Interviewed in Igor’ Sofronov, “Kontrrazvedchik Leshchuk: Ot Sirii do Afgana,” Bol’shaya
Vo l g a, 41, 22 November 2002. - THE SOVIET NUCLEAR THREAT AND KISSINGER’S DEFCON-3
- NSC/JCS meeting, FRUS N-XXV, no. 269.
- Excerpts published in Yedi’ot Ahronot, 12 September 2013; Bar-Lev’s son Omer (a former
colonel, now an educator and member of Knesset), stated on Israel Radio the same day
that Dayan clearly referred to the use of a nuclear weapon. - Razinkov, “Siriya: Goryachiy oktyabr’.”
- Avner Cohen, “When Israel Stepped Back from the Brink,” NYT, 3 October 2013, http://
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/opinion/when-israel-stepped-back-from-the-brink.
html?ref=opinion&_r=0; Cohen, “Arnan ‘Sini’ Azaryahu,” http://www.wilsoncenter.
org/arnan-sini-azaryahu. - Hersh, Samson Option, pp. 245ff.
- E.g., Michael Karpin, The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What It
Means for the World, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006, p. 324. - A[ndrey] Kokoshin et al., “Sderzhivanie vo vtorom yadernom veke,” Moscow: Institute for
Problems of International Security, 2001. - Aharon Granevich-Granot, “Chain Reaction,” Mishpacha magazine, 23 September 2009,
p. 52. Tikochinsky’s position as commander of this sub may have been overstated by him-
self or the interviewer. Since this is described as his first shipboard assignment after a mainly
technical career on land in the nuclear-weapons field, his actual function may have been
connected with the sub’s armament. - Golan, Decision Making, p. 1145.
- Report by Bill Cockrell, “a Sovietologist second to none,” quoted in Zumwalt, On Watch,
pp. 439–40. - Vafa Guluzade, Sredi vragov i druzey, Baku: Azeribook, 2002, Chapter 1, http://modern-
lib.ru/books/guluzade_vafa/sredi_vragov_i_druzey/read_1/ - Markovsky, Idite v zemlyu Egipetskuyu. Except where otherwise sourced, the following
account is based on this study. - Aleksandr Minayev, “Polet nad Tel’-Avivom” (flight over Tel Aviv: thirty-five years ago, a