On March 11, 2003, the BBC broadcasted this report entitled “Israel’s Secret Weapon”. If the video clips below state that they are “unavailable”, log on to YouTube, and then come back to this blog, and refresh this page. The clips should become visible again.
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This part describes how Vanunu revealed to the world the existence of 100+ nuclear weapons in Israel as well the biological weapons in Israel’s arsenal.
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This part describes how Israel deceived our President, John Kennedy, and how our country has subsequently become complicit in the growth of Israel’s nuclear ambitions, and in the spread of “nuclear ambiguity” about Israel’s WMD.
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Missile test in Israel
By Amir Oren, Haaretz Correspondent, January 18, 2008
First, the facts: A successful test of a new dual-stage missile was carried out at the Palmachim air base at 8:45 A.M. Thursday, January 17, 2008. Every part of the system, including the launcher and the missile itself, functioned properly, and can thus be considered operational. This success can be credited to Israel Aerospace Industries; to the other firms involved in the project; and to the Israel Air Force.
The timetable for the test was not dictated by Tehran. The government and the defense establishment are always happy when these tests succeed, but the pace of development, including the schedule of tests, generally depends on the technology rather than on external events.
But foreign experts will surely issue lengthy analyses explaining how Israel is maintaining its deterrence, especially vis-a-vis Iran, by openly testing a missile without officially saying a word about the missile’s significance. Those wily Israelis are reminding everyone what ammunition they have available, the pundits will say. Some will also comment on the exquisite timing: while U.S. President George W. Bush is visiting the region and Israel’s foreign minister is in Moscow trying to persuade the Russians to take action on Iran’s nuclear program.
Please click here to read the remainder of this article in Haaretz.
A different take on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
These clips before include some details that are not available in the BBC report–especially what countries helped Israel acquire nuclear weapons and how Vanunu was trapped and then kidnapped by Mossad.
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Deployment of Israel’s nuclear weapons
According to a detailed account contained in Time magazine, Israel assembled about a dozen bombs and readied them for use during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The bombs could have been delivered by aircraft or missiles.
On 22 January 2006 Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz hinted that Israel is preparing for military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Israel cannot accept an Iranian nuclear capability and it must defend itself, with all that that implies.”
Role of supercomputers in Israel’s nuclear weapons development
Source: The Wisconsin Project
Since 1988, Israel has been trying to buy supercomputers that would allow it to speed up its nuclear weapon calculations by a factor of one hundred. Supercomputers can simulate the implosive shock waves that detonate nuclear warheads, calculate the multiplication of neutrons in an explosive chain reaction, and solve the equations of state that describe the behavior of nuclear explosives (plutonium and high-enriched uranium) under high temperature and pressure–all essential problems for nuclear weapon design. Although it is possible to develop unsophisticated nuclear weapons with less powerful computers, supercomputers are particularly valuable to countries such as Israel that seek to avoid conducting nuclear tests. They also can be used for missile design by modeling the forces acting on a flying body, such as the heat and shock waves encountered by a long-range missile reentering the atmosphere.
In January 1992, Israel’s Technion University procured two “parallel” computers capable of reaching supercomputer speeds from the U.K. company Meiko Scientific Ltd.. The sale effectively circumvented U.S.- and Japanese-imposed restrictions for countries that had not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). But in November 1994, the United States approved the sale of nine supercomputers to Israel: two from Cray Research, five from IBM and two from Silicon Graphics. (The speeds of the nine computers ranged from 1,071 to 6,796 MTOPS.) The end-users–Technion University, Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute–all have links to Israel’s nuclear and missile programs. U.S. officials opposed to the sales were concerned that Israel would get a boost in computing power to work on a major engineering problem: shrinking thermonuclear warheads to fit on long-range missiles
Please click here to read about the Wisconsin Project’s assessment of Israel’s nuclear weapon capability.
Other articles of interest:
1. The above videos refer to an Israeli undercover agent named Cindy. Her new name is Cheryl Hanin, and she now lives in the US, working as a real estate agent in Florida. Please read the following article about her.
2. Britain played a major role by providing Israel with 20 tons of heavy water without the knowledge of the Americans. The BBC program, Newsnight, broadcast on August 3, confirmed that Britain was in fact the original source of heavy water, the crucial ingredient that allowed Israel to transform its generic nuclear reactor in Dimona in the Negev Desert – initially developed with French help – into a proficient nuclear manufacturing plant. Please read the article from the BBC.
3. Please click here to see some of pictures inside Dimona WMD manufacturing plant taken by Vanunu.
4. Please read the Der Spiegel article Is Israel Planning a Nuclear Strike Against Iran?
5. Please read Olmert under fire for implying Israel has nukes.
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