Israel's Nuclear Weapons--The Secrecy Must Stop
OpEdNews / Joe Parko
21-May-2010

First we went after non-existent nuclear weapons in Iraq and now we are consumed with the possibility that Iran might develop a nuclear weapon sometime in the future. The question that must be asked is: Why might Iran want a nuclear weapon? The answer is that Israel has dozens of nuclear weapons aimed at Iran. What nobody wants to talk about is the fact that Israel has had a secret nuclear weapons program for over 35 years that has produced at least 200 nuclear bombs. Ever since Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician, confirmed the existence of Israel's nuclear weapons program with his photographs of the secret underground bomb facility that were published in the London Sunday Times in 1986, the world has known that Israel has been making nuclear bombs but has pretended that they do not exist. Israel continues to publicly deny that it possesses nuclear weapons and refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
I talked with Mordechai Vanunu in Jerusalem in 2005 and here are my notes from that interview:
"I worked from 1976 to 1985 at the Israeli secret underground nuclear weapons production facility at the Dimona nuclear plant in the Negev desert. During my time there, I was involved in processing plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs per year. I realized that my country had already processed enough plutonium for 200 nuclear weapons. I became really afraid when we started processing Lithium 6 which is only used for the hydrogen bomb. I felt that... >>>

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