RINF<\/a>) – Israel’s open secret is well known. It’s nuclear armed and dangerous.<\/p>\nIt won’t discuss or reveal its program publicly. It wants regional exclusivity to maintain and use its arsenal at its discretion.<\/p>\n
Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion recruited Eastern European Jewish scientists to “increase (Israeli) capacity to kill masses,” he said.<\/p>\n
He was determined to have “non-conventional weapons” – notably nuclear ones to counter what he called the Arabs’ numerical advantage.<\/p>\n
His farewell address expressed confidence Israeli “science (would) provide us with the weapons that are needed to deter our enemies from waging war against us.”<\/p>\n
He and former prime minister\/president Shimon Peres became Israel’s driving forces behind developing and maintaining Israel’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.<\/p>\n
They date from the 1950s. Following Israel’s 1967 Six Day War of aggression, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan ordered production of four to 12 nuclear bombs annually.<\/p>\n
US presidents supported Israel’s program. By the early 1970s, it had advanced nuclear technology.<\/p>\n
Today it’s believed it includes hundreds of powerful nuclear weapons and delivery capability able to hit distant targets accurately.<\/p>\n
France, South Africa and America were directly involved in aiding Israel’s program.<\/p>\n
In the 1950s, Washington sent Israel a 5-megawatt highly enriched uranium research reactor as part of Eisenhower’s so-called Atoms for Peace initiative.<\/p>\n
It was provided to help it develop nuclear weapons. Israeli scientists were trained at US universities.<\/p>\n
They had access to domestic weapons labs. Since the early 1970s, Washington gave Israel advanced technology – including supercomputers able to design sophisticated nuclear weapons and delivery systems.<\/p>\n
In the mid-a1980s, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed dozens of top secret photos and documents on Israel’s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n
His courage cost him 18 years in prison – mostly in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s thermonuclear weapons today can destroy entire cities.<\/p>\n
In February, the Pentagon released a previously kept secret Institute for Defense Analysis report titled “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations” dated April 1987.<\/p>\n
Revealing what’s been long known followed Institute for Research: Middle East Policy director Grant Smith’s FOIA suit.<\/p>\n
DOD’s release is the first official US confirmation of Israel’s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n
US officials knew about it and helped develop it for decades – at least since the 1960s, maybe the 50s.<\/p>\n
Western officials, Israeli ones, and media scoundrels obsess over Iran’s peaceful nuclear program well known to have no military component.<\/p>\n
At the same time, available information on Israel’s nuclear weapons program is willfully suppressed.<\/p>\n
US major media ignore it entirely. Discussing it is considered verboten – including US help developing it.<\/p>\n
Israel is one of only a handful of nations refusing to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.<\/p>\n
Washington ignores its own laws. The 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aiding nations developing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
Israel was secretly exempted. The newly released Pentagon report discusses its nuclear infrastructure.<\/p>\n
It includes a vast array of facilities – “equivalent to (America’s) Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories,” the report said.<\/p>\n
They’re “an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories,” it explained.<\/p>\n
It includes extensive R&D facilities, factories, private companies, and government research centers devoted to developing, upgrading, producing and maintaining Israel’s nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n
Its SOREQ center “runs the full nuclear gamut of activities from engineering, administration and non-destructive testing for electro-optics, pulsed power, process engineering and chemistry and nuclear research and safety,” the report said.<\/p>\n
“This is the technology base required for nuclear weapons design and fabrication.”<\/p>\n
In 1987, it was known Israel “develop(ed) the kind of codes (needed) to make hydrogen bombs.”<\/p>\n
They “detail(ed) fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level.”<\/p>\n
Israeli nuclear weapons capability was well advanced in the 1980s. Imagine how sophisticated it is now – perhaps matching America’s.<\/p>\n
Israel was given or stole US technology for decades. Knowledge about it was systematically ignored or suppressed.<\/p>\n
Political, economic, military and technological partnership between both countries is longstanding.<\/p>\n
It includes America helping Israel develop sophisticated nuclear weapons able to incinerate the entire Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n
Maybe lunatics in both countries have that and more in mind.<\/p>\n
US and Israeli Middle East wars are real time testing grounds for new weapons systems – including chemical, biological and radiological ones.<\/p>\n
Partnership between both countries may kill us all.<\/p>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/p>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/p>\n
It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pentagon Document Confirms Israeli Nukes<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israel’s open secret is well known. It’s nuclear armed and dangerous.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It won’t discuss or reveal its program publicly. It wants regional exclusivity to maintain and use its arsenal at its discretion.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion recruited Eastern European Jewish scientists to “increase (Israeli) capacity to kill masses,” he said.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He was determined to have “non-conventional weapons” – notably nuclear ones to counter what he called the Arabs’ numerical advantage.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His farewell address expressed confidence Israeli “science (would) provide us with the weapons that are needed to deter our enemies from waging war against us.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He and former prime minister\/president Shimon Peres became Israel’s driving forces behind developing and maintaining Israel’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They date from the 1950s. Following Israel’s 1967 Six Day War of aggression, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan ordered production of four to 12 nuclear bombs annually.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
US presidents supported Israel’s program. By the early 1970s, it had advanced nuclear technology.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Today it’s believed it includes hundreds of powerful nuclear weapons and delivery capability able to hit distant targets accurately.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
France, South Africa and America were directly involved in aiding Israel’s program.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In the 1950s, Washington sent Israel a 5-megawatt highly enriched uranium research reactor as part of Eisenhower’s so-called Atoms for Peace initiative.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It was provided to help it develop nuclear weapons. Israeli scientists were trained at US universities.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They had access to domestic weapons labs. Since the early 1970s, Washington gave Israel advanced technology – including supercomputers able to design sophisticated nuclear weapons and delivery systems.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In the mid-a1980s, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed dozens of top secret photos and documents on Israel’s nuclear weapons program.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His courage cost him 18 years in prison – mostly in solitary confinement.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israel’s thermonuclear weapons today can destroy entire cities.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In February, the Pentagon released a previously kept secret Institute for Defense Analysis report titled “
Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations<\/span><\/a>” dated April 1987.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Revealing what’s been long known followed Institute for Research: Middle East Policy director Grant Smith’s FOIA suit.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
DOD’s release is the first official US confirmation of Israel’s nuclear weapons program.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
US officials knew about it and helped develop it for decades – at least since the 1960s, maybe the 50s.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Western officials, Israeli ones, and media scoundrels obsess over Iran’s peaceful nuclear program well known to have no military component.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
At the same time, available information on Israel’s nuclear weapons program is willfully suppressed.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
US major media ignore it entirely. Discussing it is considered verboten – including US help developing it.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israel is one of only a handful of nations refusing to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Washington ignores its own laws. The 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aiding nations developing nuclear weapons.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israel was secretly exempted. The newly released Pentagon report discusses its nuclear infrastructure.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It includes a vast array of facilities – “equivalent to (America’s) Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories,” the report said. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They’re “an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories,” it explained.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It includes extensive R&D facilities, factories, private companies, and government research centers devoted to developing, upgrading, producing and maintaining Israel’s nuclear arsenal.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Its SOREQ center “runs the full nuclear gamut of activities from engineering, administration and non-destructive testing for electro-optics, pulsed power, process engineering and chemistry and nuclear research and safety,” the report said. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“This is the technology base required for nuclear weapons design and fabrication.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In 1987, it was known Israel “develop(ed) the kind of codes (needed) to make hydrogen bombs.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They “detail(ed) fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israeli nuclear weapons capability was well advanced in the 1980s. Imagine how sophisticated it is now – perhaps matching America’s.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Israel was given or stole US technology for decades. Knowledge about it was systematically ignored or suppressed.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Political, economic, military and technological partnership between both countries is longstanding.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It includes America helping Israel develop sophisticated nuclear weapons able to incinerate the entire Middle East and beyond.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Maybe lunatics in both countries have that and more in mind.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
US and Israeli Middle East wars are real time testing grounds for new weapons systems – including chemical, biological and radiological ones.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Partnership between both countries may kill us all.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":140191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}