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Vanunu
If there one person who has done more than anyone else in terms of exposing Israel’s nuclear program, it’s Mordechai Vanunu, when he revealed information to the British press in 1986. Mordechai Vanunu was born in Morrocco to an orthodox Jew family. When Mordechai was 10 his family moved to Israel and made a modest…
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Begin Doctrine
After Israel built its own nuclear program, it introduced in the mid 1970’s. This was a military doctrine, where Israel, prevent its surrounding neighbors from having nuclear weapons themselves. Which has been implemented multiple times. The doctrine is said to be in place to prevent another Holocaust, but it also acts as a ground for…
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Vella Incident
During the cold war, both America and the Soviets deployed satellites into space to monitor the others nuclear development. After the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963, by countries working on nuclear capabilities. Due to radioactive fallout, the treaty banned the testing of Nuclear above ground or in the atmosphere, meaning nuclear…
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Yom Kippur War
During the Yom Kippur War, Israel saw the most fighting it seen since the Six-day War, nearly six years earlier. Many Israelis dislike how Golda Meir handle the situation, since she called off a preventive strike, while the Arab armies were forming. In the matter of a few weeks the Israeli managed to overcome their…
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Holocaust in History
When it comes to learning World War Two history, one of the most important topics that we are faced with is the Holocaust. We have all heard of the 6 million number, and now because of this event, European countries are not allowed to have nationalism. It’s a very common topic that is taught in…
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USS Liberty Incident
During the Six-Day war, Israel would attack one of its greatest allies, America, in something known as the USS Liberty incident. The USS Liberty was a converted liberty ship, that was used to collect signal intelligence data from surrounding areas. On June 5th, at the beginning of the Six-day War America was still considered…
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Spider
During the end of the Six-day war, Israel would have its first two nuclear bombs built. This was after Prime Minister Levi Eshko secretly ordered the team at Dimona to assemble two nukes with whatever material and hardware they had. This type of bomb was different than an arial bomb that the US and other…
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Apollo Affair
Israel might have bought a lot of its Uranium for their program, with under the table deals, and some of it was mined in the Palestinian desert. However not all of it was bought, or dug, a large proportion of it was stollen. NUMEC was slow to report it. In 1965, 206 pounds of Uranium…
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JFK Assassination
During all of Israel’s existence, only on US President has tried to put Israel in its place. That president was John F. Kennedy, for which he would pay the ultimate price. JFK didn’t want Israel to obtain atomic weapons, knowing how untrustworthy they were. John F. Kennedy was also a big supporter of Hitler, which…
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Otto Skorzeny
Ottos Skorzeny has to be consider one of the most interesting men alive, with both a past involving Nazi Germany, post war Argentina, and later the Mossad. He was born in Austria, and was originally part of the Waffen SS, where he rose to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel.) During his time in the…