Is Israel building another nuclear bomb? – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services
JEA: When U.S. officials finally learned about Israel’s nuclear weapons back in the 1970s and 80s, they were completely shocked because they had underestimated Israel. The officials admitted when they first saw some of those warheads, “Our thought was ‘Holy shit!’ How could we have been so wrong? We always said, ‘So the Israelis got ten warheads? Okay. So what? Anybody can build those.’ All of a sudden we learned they’d become sophisticated. It blew everybody’s mind.’”[1] Others in the Reagan administration were “paranoid.” One official declared, “It was kept away f...