In
1986, the world learned that
Israel had already developed between one hundred to two hundred
atomic bombs and had begun to develop neutron bombs and thermonuclear
weapons, after
Mordechai Vanunu, a lowly tech in Israel's 7-story underground
clandestine WMD
facility, provided two rolls of photographic proof and his testimony
that was published by the London Sunday
Times.
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Israel has not
signed the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty, has never opened its facilities for IAEA
inspections and thus far, President Obama persists in another of
President George W. Bush's policies.
On April 24, 2004, Uri Avnery wrote after
Vanunu was released from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell to
house arrest denied the right to leave the state ever since, that
"Everybody understands that [Vanunu] has no more secrets. What can a
technician know after 18 years in jail, during which technology has
advanced
with giant steps?
"But gradually it becomes clear what the security establishment is
really
afraid of. Vanunu is in a position to expose the close partnership with
the
United States in the development of Israel's nuclear armaments.
"This worries Washington so much, that the man responsible in the State Department for 'arms control', Under-Secretary John Bolton, has come to Israel in person for the occasion. Vanunu, it appears, can cause severe damage to the mighty super-power. The Americans, it seems, are very worried.
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