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The first public revelation of Israel's nuclear capability (as opposed to development program) came from NBC News, which reported in January 1969 that Israel decided "to embark on a crash course program to produce a nuclear weapon" two years previously, and that they possessed or would soon be in possession of such a device. [101]
The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center as viewed from a Corona satellite in the late 1960s. The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center (Hebrew: קריה למחקר גרעיני – נגב ע"ש שמעון פרס, formerly the Negev Nuclear Research Center, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Dimona reactor) is an Israeli nuclear installation located in the Negev desert, about ...
UA853.I8 H47 1991. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons program and its effects on Israel-American relations. The " Samson Option " of the book's title refers to the nuclear strategy whereby Israel would launch a massive ...
In 1991, American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning political writer Seymour Hersh authored the book Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy. [15] In the preface of the book he writes: "This is a book about how Israel became a nuclear power in secret.
Nuclear weapons. It is believed that Israel had possessed an operational nuclear weapons capability by 1967, with the mass production of nuclear warheads occurring immediately after the Six-Day War. [2] Experts estimated the stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 400. [3][4][5] It is unknown if Israel's reported ...
Jane's Defence Weekly reported that the Dolphin-class submarines are believed to be nuclear armed, offering Israel a sea-based, second strike capability. [17] [18] In adherence to Missile Technology Control Regime rules [46] the US Clinton administration rejected an Israeli request in 2000 to purchase Tomahawk long range SLCMs.
Operation Outside the Box. Operation Outside the Box, [a][3][4][5][6][7] also known as Operation Orchard, [b] was an Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor, [8] referred to as the Al Kibar site (also referred to in IAEA documents as Dair Alzour), in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria, [9] which occurred just after midnight (local time ...
1960 Israeli stamp featuring the Soreq Nuclear Research Center. On 26 August 1958, then Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol announced the government's intention to build a nuclear power plant. Over the next three decades talks were held with various American administrations to help advance this effort but none came to fruition.