Report confirms Israel’s nuclear arsenal

Press TV
Monday, Sept 22, 2008

The Sunday Times has revealed that an Israeli factory beneath the Negev desert is manufacturing thermo-nuclear weapons for atomic bombs.The secrets of the subterranean factory have been uncovered by The Sunday Times Insight team.
Hidden beneath the Negev desert, the factory has been producing atomic warheads for the past 20 years. Now it has almost certainly begun manufacturing thermo-nuclear weapons, with yields big enough to destroy entire cities, the report says.

Information about Israel’s capacity to manufacture the bomb comes from the testimony of a former Dimona employee, nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu.

Vanunu’s testimony and pictures, confirm that Israel has the world’s sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, including hundreds of nuclear warheads.

Israel has possessed its secret weapons factory for more than two decades, and its nuclear facility is equipped with French plutonium extracting technology, which transformed Dimona from a research establishment to a bomb production facility.

The nuclear scientists consulted by The Sunday Times calculate that at least 100 and as many as 200 nuclear weapons of varying destructive power have been assembled - 10 times the previously estimated strength of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.

The scientists include Theodore Taylor, who was taught by Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and who went on to head the Pentagon’s atomic weapons test program.

Taylor studied the photographs taken by Vanunu inside Dimona and a transcript of his evidence near Washington last week.

“There should no longer be any doubt that Israel is, and for at least a decade has been, a fully-fledged nuclear weapons state. The Israeli nuclear weapons program is considerably more advanced than indicated by any previous report or conjectures of which I am aware,” Taylor said.

Taylor’s assessments have been confirmed by other top nuclear scientists who were shown the pictures and evidence provided by Vanunu.

I for one admire their restraint...

Considering the pressure that has been brought to bear on that one small piece of this world it is a wonder the Arab countries did not become slag heaps years ago.

The first nation to fire Nukes on another nation can almost assure themselves a salvo of Nuclear ordinance, in return.

I don't think the world, in this day and age is going to accept the atrocities of Nuclear warfare again, I could be wrong, but then again isn't that why we never got into it with the Soviets? You know, Mutually assured destruction?

Then why the heck is ever one so worried about Iran having them?

They might be a bit crazy but I doubt they would destroy the cradle of Islam for any jew.

Good question, seeing as how Israel has demonstrated more militant behavior over the last 20 years than any one of it's muslim neighbors. Wheres the shock and outrage, where's Bush's preemptive strike?

Have you ever been boots down in that region?

If you have then you know that what you just said is poppy ****.

It is so much more complicated than that.

If you have not then you need to quit reading about it from whatever bias you have and go get some of the soil of eden on your feet.

you obviously mean the second nation to use nuks don't you

cause the united states have used them already

maybe that is one of the reasons the united states has a bullseye painted on it

just a thought

but hey

what do i know

for them to use nuks on area countries would also hurt there own lands with the fallout

but if they face destruction i doubt if they will exercise restraint

well, Reagan sure convinced the Soviets otherwise huh?

did we bluff about star wars or not?

The KGB doesn't ever appear to be asleep and unaware of what time it is.

The Soviets never blinked before.

It may be that mutually assured destruction is not on the table anymore.

hhmmmmm.....

It's poppycock? So Israel hasn't been very war like over the last 20 years? My fault, I could have sworn they'd walled off the palestinians and used that wall to blockade food, water, energy and medecine. They don't have Zionists running their country, not unlike the Globalists we have here? They didn't just "elect" a Mossad agent to be their prime minister?

That being said, I know that there is more to it than that, but I stand by my statement. If we are going to police the world, then we shouldn't pick and choose. Israel has used extreme military tactics against a people that are by far nowhere near Israels military capability (thanks to us), so where is the American occupation of that part of the middle east, we know for a fact they have WMD's, where's the outrage over that?

Compared to Iran, who is killing more people?