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The Israeli nuclear program was ... tested a miniaturized nuclear device. The Institute for ... by 1969 that Israel possessed nuclear weapons as a policy of ...
Israel The Nuclear Potential of Individual Countries Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons Problems of Extension Appendix 2 Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence Service April 6, 1995; The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Seymour M. Hersh, New York: Random House, 1991
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the 1991 book, see The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Samson Option According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and "bowed himself with all his might" (Judges 16:30, KJV). This has been variously ...
The Apollo affair or NUMEC affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company, NUMEC, in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program.
During the next several years Bergmann, who had become famous through his work and connection with Weizmann, [3] became close friends with David Ben-Gurion, and was appointed to several prominent government positions: chief of the Israel Defense Forces' science department in August 1948, science adviser to minister of defense on July 15, 1951, and director of research of the Division of ...
[71] [72] [73] According to Israeli historian Avner Cohen, Israel's policy on nuclear weapons, which was set down in 1966, revolves around four "red lines" which could lead to an Israeli nuclear response: A successful military penetration into populated areas within Israel's borders. The destruction of the Israeli Air Force.
The United States still believes that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear weapon despite Tehran's recent strategic setbacks, including Israel's killing of Hezbollah leaders and two largely ...
Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but does not acknowledge it, maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity. [3] Israel is estimated to possess somewhere between 90 and 300 nuclear warheads. [4] [a] One possible motivation for nuclear ambiguity is deterrence with minimum political friction. [5] [6]