Avner Cohen

Avner Cohen
Avner Cohen
Occupation writer, Senior Research Fellow
Nationality Israeli
Alma mater Tel Aviv University, York University, University of Chicago
Genres issues related to nuclear weapons
Notable work(s) Israel and the Bomb, 1998
Notable award(s) B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

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Avner Cohen is writer, historian, and professor, and is well known for his works on nuclear weapons. Cohen received a B.A. in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 1975. He went on to study at York University where he received an M.A. in Philosophy in 1977 and four years later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the History of Culture. After these studies he embarked on an academic career, returning to Tel Aviv University in 1983 to join the department of philosophy. He went on to hold positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and is presently affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park and the Monterey Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Cohen has researched various issues with regard to nuclear weapons, including deterrence, morality, and proliferation. His seminal work, Israel and the Bomb, which chronicled the Israeli nuclear program, was published in 1998. This book led him to encounter problems with the Israeli censor, and provoked substantial legal difficulties upon his return to Israel to give a keynote speech at an academic conference.

Works

  • Doubt, anxiety, and salvation. 1981.  (Ph.D. thesis)
  • Nuclear weapons and the future of humanity : the fundamental questions. Totowa, N.J: Rowman & Allanheld. 1986. ISBN 978-0847672585.  (with Steven Lee)
  • The Institution of philosophy: a discipline in crisis?. La Salle, Ill: Open Court. 1989.  (with Marcelo Dascal) (reprint ISBN 978-0812690941)
  • Nuclear shadows in the Middle East : prospects for arms control in the wake of the Gulf Crisis. Cambridge, Mass: Defense and Arms Control Studies Program, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1990.  (with Marvin Miller)
  • Israel and the bomb. New York: Columbia University Press. 1998. ISBN 0231104820. 
  • The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press. 2010. ISBN 0231136986. 

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