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2004.- Zeldovich, who was no longer directly associated with the weapons program, had heard
“rumors in the ministry” about an impending strike at Israel. Minayev, quoting Ilya
Mikhailovich Livshits: Uchenyy i chelovek, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2008. Also quoted in Istvan
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http://rd.rusk.ru/98/rd11/home11_15.htm - Barry M. Blechman and Douglas M. Hart, “Nuclear Weapons and the 1973 Middle East
Crisis,” in Robert J. Art and Kenneth Waltz (eds), The Use of Force: Military Power and
International Politics, 5th edn, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, p. 243. - AP, “Eg ypt Warns Missiles Poised to Hit Israel,” Leader-Herald (Gloversville-Johnston,
NY), 16 October 1973, p. 1. - Minutes of WSAG meeting, 17 October 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 198. “Nicolai” is a cor-
ruption of Nikolaev—a surprising error for an admiral, perhaps made by the
stenographer. - Israelyan, Inside the Kremlin, pp. 144–5.
- No’am Ofir, IAF Magazine, 171, 25 October 2006, http://iaf.org.il/1779-26839-HE/
I A F. a s p x - Golan, Decision Making, p. 1263.
- Memorial page for Cpl Albert Mish’ali, http://www.izkor.gov.il/HalalKorot.
aspx?id=94247 - Agafonov, “Kto ukryl?”; Israelyan, Inside the Kremlin, pp. 143–4 states that a previous
request from the Eg yptians, relayed by the Soviet military, to fire Scuds at El-Arish had
been blocked by Gromyko (according to another Foreign Ministry aide, Evgeny Pyrlin).
El-Arish, a small port in northern Sinai, is adjacent to an airbase where according to Arab
charges “the U.S. had flown material directly”—whch might explain Gromyko’s objection;
minutes of WSAG Meeting, 9 November 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 336. - Chernyaev, Diary 1973, p. 69.
- The raising of “volunteer” landing parties on the Eskadra’s ships duplicates the procedure
that we described from former Soviet sources as followed in June 1967. Foxbats,
pp. 149–51. - Golan, Decision Making, pp. 436, 453–4, 1146, 1150.
- The above account of the Eskadra’s moves is based on Zaborsky, “Zapiski o neizvestnoy
voyne,” Morskoy sbornik, 3 (March 1999) and an unpublished journal by Semenov, both
quoted by Goldstein and Zhukov. - Nixon, Years of Upheaval, pp. 588–9. This was when Israel encircled the Eg yptian III Army
Corps and Brezhnev called on Nixon to intervene with a joint force, else “we should be
faced with the necessity urgently to consider the question of taking appropriate steps uni-
laterally.” Brezhnev to Nixon, 24 October 1973, FRUS N-XXV, no. 267.