Why Israel's Netanyahu will skip Obama's nuclear security summit

Spotlight Is Now On Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program
Israel is estimated to have 150-200 atomic bombs, deliverable by aircraft, missile or submarine. Photograph: Havakuk Levison/Reuters

Why Israel's Netanyahu Will Skip Obama's Nuclear Security Summit -- Christian Science Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will send a deputy to Obama's nuclear security summit next week. He decided not to attend himself after learning that some Arab countries planned to press Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Middle East was always going to be a focus of any international gathering on nuclear security.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s last-minute decision to skip President Obama’s nuclear security summit in Washington next week has served to highlight instabilities in the Middle East – and the reasons the prospect of a “nuclear race” in the region is so worrisome to US officials.

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