Israeli strategists need to devise optimal strategies for averting a nuclear war with Iran without sacrificing intra-crisis capacities for “escalation dominance.”
Experts explain nuclear blackmail as Kremlin seeks to deter Western support for Ukraine.
The former general's comments follow recent warnings by President Vladimir Putin that Moscow may change its nuclear doctrine, which lays out the conditions in which such weapons could be used.
His state visit comes amid US accusations that North Korea has supplied "dozens of ballistic missiles and over 11,000 containers of munitions to Russia" for use in Ukraine.
Israel does not publicly acknowledge possessing nuclear weapons.
The increase of $10.7 billion is largely attributed to an increase in the United States’s defense budget.
In recent months, multiple top Iranian officials have threatened the West that it might publicly decide that nuclear weapons are not prohibited by Islam.
The deaths of Iran's president and foreign minister in a helicopter crash have caused a pause in the UN nuclear watchdog's talks with Tehran.
“It is the wrong thing to do for the State of Israel because the core of the agreement is the approval Israel gives to the Saudi nuclear program."
The Biden administration has been talking with Saudi Arabia and Israel on a potential peace agreement since before the October 7 deadly attacks.