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Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in 2019 that, throughout the spring and summer of 1963, the leaders of the United States and Israel – President John F. Kennedy and prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol – were engaged in a high-stakes battle of wills over Israel's nuclear program. The tensions were invisible to the publics of ...
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.
Mordechai Vanunu (Hebrew: מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1954), [1] also known as John Crossman, [2] [3] is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist [4] who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. [5]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An American researcher said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit a building that was part of Iran's defunct nuclear weapons development program, and he and another researcher ...
Israel is believed to manufacture its nuclear weapons at the Negev Nuclear Research Center. On 5 November 2023, amid the 2023 Israel-Hamas War, Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu stated that the use of atomic weapons in the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip could be "one of the possibilities". He was neither a member the security cabinet nor of ...
Fuller details about the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facility in 1981. That Israel collaborated with South Africa on a nuclear test over the Indian Ocean in 1979. That during the 1991 Gulf War Israel pointed nuclear armed mobile missiles at Iraq. That Israel holds a few neutron bombs in addition to several hundred other nuclear weapons.
Biden said this week that the U.S. opposed any strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. But Israel has long warned of the danger of Iran’s developing nuclear weapons, and Prime Minister Benjamin ...
During his 2006 confirmation hearings before the United States Senate regarding his appointment as George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, [7] and two years later, in 2008, former US president Jimmy Carter stated the number of nuclear weapons held by Israel to be "150 or more". [8]