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Friday, September 24, 2010

Israel's Nuclear Weapons By Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army

  Israel's Nuclear Weapons By Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army



This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources.  Israel began its search for nuclear weapons at the inception of the state in 1948.  As payment for Israeli participation in the Suez Crisis of 1956, France provided nuclear expertise and constructed a reactor complex for Israel at Dimona capable of large-scale plutonium production and reprocessing. Continue


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