Israel’s Bomb: Or, Finance as the Undoing of Foreign Policy

The story broke like this: a German shipyard has been manufacturing submarines for Israel, who are allegedly arming them with “nuclear tipped” missiles. In the 1970s when this practice started many within the German establishment recast the Nazi holocaust as a future responsibility to arm the state of Israel. Der Spiegel, the daily that published the claims, and its readers, are aghast. The underlying scandal, however, is arguably more sinister than German-Israeli cooperation, and as equally troublesome as the “nuclear holocaust” paradox.