WARNING: Political Thread

[Eric5273]

Originally Posted by Roc3b

WE sold them to em...that is thier deterence from being invaded. They have the means of wipping out what ever forces mass against them. That was why we sold them to em.

We did not sell nuclear weapons to Israel!!

Read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...23/wnuke23.xml

Israel reveals secrets of how it gained bomb

By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem

12/23/2001

A TELEVISION documentary in which Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign minister, discloses for the first time details about Israel's acquisition of nuclear weapons is to be broadcast in the Arab world. It is intended, at a time of rising tensions, as a warning.

In the documentary, Mr Peres goes further than any other Israeli official in confirming that the Jewish state has a nuclear capability. He and former French government officials give details about co-operation between Israel and France in launching Israel's nuclear programme.

The film, made by a leading Israeli documentary team, is a sign that the government may be finally relaxing its rule of absolute silence on its nuclear programme. Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Dimona nuclear facility, is serving an 18-year jail sentence for revealing in 1986 that Israel had a nuclear programme and more than 100 warheads.

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The film reveals how France helped Israel on its nuclear programme in exchange for support in the Suez War. In the mid-1950s, relations between the two countries were warming because of their shared anxiety over burgeoning nationalist movements in North Africa.