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Ezlivin

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1. Well, the 100+ nuclear weapons Israel possesses hasn't.
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 03:46 PM
Feb 2013

Right?

On 5 October 1986, the Sunday Times published Mordechai Vanunu’s account of the nuclear activities at Israel’s top-secret Dimona facility. The former Dimona technician’s revelations challenged the steadfastness of nuclear opacity. Vanunu’s claims reinforced some of the U.S. intelligence community’s suspicions, such as the fact that Israel had expanded the cooling capacity of the Dimona reactor. His testimony also confirmed the existence of the long-suspected reprocessing plant, as well the layout of subterranean levels at Dimona. The credibility of Vanunu’s account was strengthened by the 58 photographs he took of equipment, such as a full-scale model of a hydrogen bomb and glove boxes where plutonium discs were fashioned into pits. Based on his revelations, some experts estimated that Israel had built between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons of varying yields and complexity.


Source: http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/israel/nuclear/

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