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Israel’s approach to nuclear ambiguity stands out as one of the most contentious nuclear strategies in existence today, drawing criticism from various Middle Eastern nations and advocates for nuclear disarmament.
Israel’s unrestricted possession of nuclear capabilities raises concerns that Israel might undertake aggressive military actions in the region, confident that its nuclear dominance will deter any strong responses. Israel has frequently voiced its support for a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East during UN discussions, but argues that such a zone can only be created after achieving peace and mutual recognition among regional nations. Arab countries view this position as a delaying tactic that may justify Israel’s undisclosed nuclear capabilities.
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Despite the reluctance of both mainstream and alternative journalists to reveal the substantial evidence surrounding Israel’s military nuclear program and its links to the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), it remains crucial for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to urge Israel to reflect on how its policy of ambiguity, known as the “Amimut policy,” could jeopardize its long-term security and the feasibility of establishing a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone…
VIDEO: JFK and Israel’s Nuclear Program – Narrated bu Ryan Dawson (Source: Jack Day)
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Eclectic Anecdotes reports…
JFK and Israel’s Nuclear Program
David Ben-Gurion wrote in 1948, “What Einstein, Oppenheimer and Teller, the three of them Jews, made for the United States could also be done by scientists in Israel for their own people.” He met with all three of the physicists who worked on the Manhattan project at various times to discuss nuclear matters. Edward Teller would tell the Israeli scientist Yuval Ne’eman in 1967, speaking of Israel’s completion of the bomb, “I think that you are not idiots, and I am impressed by your high level, and I think that you have already finished, and the thing is now behind you. I do not think that the cat and mouse game with the Americans is healthy, and it will cause problems in the future, so I am going to tell the CIA of my impressions, and I’ll explain that it is justified on the background of the Six-Day War.”
Ernst David Bergmann was the father of the Israeli bomb, whose scientific knowledge earned him the respect of many. Shimon Perez became administrator of the nuclear program by 1955, and he spoke of his success at the project: “Ben Gurion trusted me. Professor Bergmann worked with me with no reservations. In time, I was able to win the trust and confidence of the other scientists, engineers and senior personnel engaged in the project.”Bergmann stressed that procuring an Israeli bomb would guarantee “that we shall never again be led as lambs to the slaughter.”
Andre Finkelstein, who served as the director general of the French Atomic Energy Commission, said that in 1958,
[w]hen de Gaulle came back to power he wasn’t so much against Israel but he wanted to make peace in Algeria so he had to make something to appease the Arabs and he said we have to stop that project [Dimona] immediately. The orders came from Paris, you have to get rid of all the personnel in your company…. The same day the Israelis started another company and took back all the same people to finish the project. Even under de Gaulle it could be done!
Continuing the Atoms for Peace program, the U.S. gifted Israel with a small research reactor with the explicit instructions to not use it for production of plutonium. The U.S. built reactor was situated in Nahal Soreq. Although HEU fuel was being produced at Nahal Soreq by 1961, this could not be used for nuclear weapons production because U.S. inspectors were constantly safeguarding it.
But Bergmann and other Israeli scientists immediately got to work upgrading it so as “to conduct more advanced experiments in plutonium separation,” according to a letter distributed amongst project officials. The reactor was insufficient to meet their plutonium needs, so they approached the French for a new reactor in the Negev desert. Peres was responsible for a secret deal with France in 1956 for the country to supply Israel with “something like nuclear capacity.” Due to the alliance between France and Israel during the Suez Crisis, French Prime Minister Guy Mollet said that France “owed” the nuclear bomb to Israel, since he felt that France had failed Israel in the conflict by withdrawing troops after being threatened by the Soviet Union. Charles de Gaulle was not informed that the reactor would be used for nuclear weapons production.
By late 1957, the Israelis and French working on the project decided that Dimona, a settlement in Negev, would be the site for the new reactor. “By the end of the 50s, there were 2,500 French citizens living in Dimona, transforming it from a village to a cosmopolitan town, complete with French lycées and streets full of Renaults, and yet the whole endeavour was conducted under a thick veil of secrecy.” In 1959, American U-2 spy planes captured photos of the excavation occurring at Dimona. Eisenhower was immediately notified, but he ignored the warnings. Dino Brugioni, the CIA photography analyst who discovered what was happening at Dimona, said, “Whenever you get something on the Israelis and you move it along, you’d better be careful, especially if you’ve got a career.”
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