Zaki Shalom is a member of the research staff at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies and at Ashkelon Academic College. He is the author of Israel's Nuclear Option: Behind the Scenes Diplomacy between Dimona and Washington (Sussex Academic Press and Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2005), and Ben-Gurions Political Struggles, 19631967: A Lion in Winter (Routledge, 2006). In 2007 he was awarded the Prime Ministers prestigious David Ben-Gurion Memorial Prize for his book Fire in His Bones, which relates Ben-Gurions activities following his resignation as prime minister and until his death.