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Map of nuclear-armed states of the world NPT -designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan) Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel) NATO or CSTO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Belarus) States formerly possessing nuclear ...
Just one year later on July 18, The New York Times made public for the first time that the U.S. government believed Israel to possess nuclear weapons or to have the "capacity to assemble atomic bombs on short notice". [102] Israel reportedly assembled 13 bombs during the Yom Kippur War as a last defense against total defeat, and kept them ...
Haifa naval base: Haifa: BHD 600: Haifa: Atlit naval base: near Atlit: Prison Six: near Atlit: Havat HaShomer Training Base near Ilaniya: Biranit: Galilee: Ramat David Airbase: near Ramat David: Air Force Technical College Haifa: Michve Alon: near Safed: Camp Tzalmon near Karmiel: Camp Gibor near Kiryat Shmona: Ein Shemer Airfield: near Ein ...
Hardened Penetration Bomb 550lbs free-fall bomb MPR-500: Israel 500lbs precision guided bomb MLGB: Israel 250lbs laser guided bomb MSOV: Israel Stand off capabilities 1,500lbs glide bomb FASTLIGHT: Israel 110lbs precision guided bomb M117: United States 387lbs free-fall bomb Spice 250: Israel Developed from the AGM-142: 250lbs precision guided bomb
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 ...
Former President Joe Biden had restricted the delivery of the 2,000-pound bombs out of concern they could be used indiscriminately by Israel’s military in densely populated areas of Gaza.
Operation Accountability (25–31 July 1993) – A week-long IDF operation in Lebanon to attack Hezbollah positions. Israel specified three purposes of the operation: to strike directly at Hezbollah, to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel and to displace refugees in the hopes of pressuring the ...
The United States stipulates that U.S. military equipment provided through the FMS program can be used only for internal security or defensive purposes. Consequently, after allegations were made that Israel had used cluster bombs for offensive purposes during the 1982 Lebanon War, the United States suspended shipments of cluster bombs to Israel ...