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When the Israeli government held a cabinet meeting last May in a tunnel underneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, I remembered asking the late Yasser Arafat, in 2000, about the reasons behind the failure of his latest round of talks with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, under the auspices of President Bill Clinton. Arafat had relayed, with Dr. Nabil Shaath’s presence, that Barak demanded Israeli
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.
January first is also the time of year when a host of prognosticators predict what is coming for the upcoming year.
ALBAWABA - Has Yair Lapid, the country's caretaker prime minister, just admitted that Israel has nuclear weapons and this is how it will be protected? R
This issue of the Nuclear Notebook examines Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which we estimate includes a stockpile of roughly 90 warheads. Israel neither officially confirms nor denies that it possesses nuclear weapons, and our estimate is therefore largely based on calculations of Israel’s stockpile of weapon-grade plutonium and its inventory of operational nuclear-capable delivery systems.