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Concerned That Israel Might Be Trying to Attain Nuclear Capability, the U.S., in the Mid-1960s, Insisted on Regular Visits to Dimona. The Visiting Experts Came Away Reassured of Israel’s Intentions, but Not Everyone in the U.S. Government Was Convinced.

Jan. 17, 2021 In a recent op-ed piece in this newspaper, we revealed that Henry Kissinger, then a professor of government at Harvard University, at the conclusion of a private visit in Israel in January 1965, shared with U.S. diplomats in Tel Aviv his conviction “that Israel is already embarked on a nuclear weapons construction program.” While the record of the discussion does not tell us what impact that observation had on Kissinger’s audience, much less how he had reached that conclusio...