Dimona
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1960 Intelligence Report Said Israeli Nuclear Site Was for Weapons
“We Are Not a Satellite of America”: Ben-Gurion’s Angry Response to U.S. Questions about the Dimona Reactor Declassified Reports on U.S. Inspections of Dimona in 1965, 1966 and 1967 1967 Intelligence Report: Was Israel Producing Weapons-Grade Plutonium and Deceiving the U.S.? Years Later, Moscow Asked: Does Israel Have the Bomb? Continue reading
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JFK vs. Israel’s Bomb 1963
Declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive illuminate President John F. Kennedy’s secret preoccupation with the Israeli nuclear program during 1963. Possibly more determined to check nuclear proliferation than any other U.S. president, Kennedy wanted U.S. experts to inspect Israel’s nuclear reactor site at Dimona to ensure that it was not being used… Continue reading
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The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
During 1963-64, the Israeli government secretly acquired 80-100 tons of Argentine uranium oxide (“yellowcake”) for its nuclear weapons program, according to U.S. and British archival documents published today for the first time jointly by the National Security Archive, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Continue reading
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Vanunu Returns To Prison And The End Of Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity By Eileen Fleming
On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service. “ The ‘justices’ refused Vanunu’s offer to do community service in occupied east Jerusalem, because they do not view that side of town to be a… Continue reading
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Israeli scientist calls for nuclear disclosure
An Israeli scientist is calling for his country to end a decades-long silence over its reported nuclear weapons capability and open its nuclear reactor to inspection. Uzi Even, a Tel Aviv University chemistry professor and former worker at Israel’s Dimona reactor, said US President Barack Obama’s campaign for global nuclear arms reduction is a sign… Continue reading
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The Arab World and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal WRITTEN BY Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
It was Israel that introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East more than four decades ago, with the knowledge and acquiescence of western powers. The CIA first concluded that Israel had begun to produce nuclear weapons in 1968, but few details emerged until 1986 when Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at the Dimona nuclear facility,… Continue reading
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The Martyrdom Of Mordechai Vanunu By Eileen Fleming
I am asking the committee to remove my name from the nominations…I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres…Peres established and developed the atomic weapon program in Dimona in Israel…Peres was the man who ordered [my] kidnapping…he continues to oppose my freedom and release…WHAT I WANT IS FREEDOM AND ONLY… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 