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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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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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Israeli Dimona
Since the beginning of its founding, in 1948, one of their top priorities as a group of people is getting their hands on the atomic bomb. While the first nuclear reaction was done by the Germans, and it was perfected into a bomb during the Manhattan project in America Israel, felt like that technology should…
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