Guesstimate At Best--How Many Nukes Does Israel Have. Is This An Attempt To Embarrass Israel?

Israel’s Most Closely Guarded Secret Revealed: Report Estimates Israel in Possession of 115 Nuclear Weapons

By Lea Speyer November 23, 2015 , 11:30 am

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“He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them.” (Psalm 18:14)

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The Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona in Israel. (Photo: Google Earth/ Digital Globe/ORION-ME/Gisrael)

With Israel keeping mum throughout the years over its nuclear program, a new report by a US think tank has revealed that Israel has amassed some 115 nuclear warheads since the country’s inception of its nuclear weapons program.

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) revealed the findings in a November 19 report that claims Israel is in possession of approximately 660 kilograms of plutonium. The report finds that Israel began its production of plutonium in 1963 at its Dimona reactor, “the heart of Israel’s nuclear weapons production.”

The author concludes that based on the timeframe, Israel today would be in possession of 115 nuclear weapons, with each nuclear weapon needing between three to five kilograms of plutonium.

“Based on the total production of plutonium, the median for the number of nuclear weapons is about 165 with a standard deviation of 33 and a full range of about 90-290 weapons,” wrote former UN nuclear inspector David Albright. “Likely, Israel did not build this many nuclear weapons. A reasonable assumption is that the number of deployed weapons is 30 percent lower, or 115 nuclear weapons as of the end of 2014.”

According to Albright, Israel not only has an entire cache of nuclear weapons but “a wide range of delivery vehicles for its nuclear weapons.”

Beginning in the 1960s, with help from France, Israel first developed the Jericho ballistic missile capable of handling a nuclear payload. Since then, the country has developed “several improved missiles since then on its own, as well as nuclear-capable cruise missiles.”

Israel “also has aircraft that can deliver nuclear weapons and may have the capability to launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles from its submarines.”

Israel has never confirmed nor denied possessing a nuclear weapons program and it not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Albright acknowledges that the findings of the report are based on assessments and foreign reports.  

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Was Israel Notified Of The Potential Of The Nuclear Documents Being Declassified? We Cannot Believe Israel Would Have Agreed To The Release!

Pentagon Declassifies Documents Outlining Israel’s Nuclear Program

By Raphael Poch March 30, 2015 , 10:10 am

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“He who robs his father and his mother and says ‘this is not a transgression’, he is a friend of a destroyer.” (Proverbs 28:24)

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The Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona in Israel. (Photo: Google Earth/ Digital Globe/ORION-ME/Gisrael)

In a move that is certain to continue to upset the already shaky relations between the US and Israel, the Pentagon recently declassified parts of a document that outlines Israel’s plans to build a hydrogen bomb from 1987.

The request to publish the report was submitted three years ago, and was declassified in February but only began to gain publicity after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress at the beginning of March.

The declassified parts of the document referred only to Israel’s nuclear program and left out the other countries that were involved in building their own nuclear programs at the time, including Italy, France, West Germany and other NATO countries.

The information on those countries continues to remain classified with those sections blocked out in the document.

The 386-page top-secret document titled “Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations,” was thinned out to 129 pages and toutes the Israeli program quite highly.

The report compares the Israeli facilities such as the Soreq Nuclear Research Center and the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona “to our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories”, which are key sites in the US nuclear program.

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It lauds Israeli researchers’ “ingeniously clever” solutions to complicated problems, and “ingenious Israeli inventions.”

The declassified documents also cover other fields of Israeli defense technology including lasers and homing devices that were not yet operational at the time.

The release of the Pentagon’s intelligence on Israel’s nuclear program comes after a three year legal battle by journalist Grant Smith, Israel Hayom reported. Smith is the head of a Washington think-tank is known for his extreme anti-Israel sentiments.

In spite of some theories that the information was released as part of a revenge tactic by the Obama administration for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, a White House spokesperson said that Israel did not object to the release of the information, and that according to the freedom of information act, the US government had to release the information unless a foreign government objects to its release. Israel apparently did not object to the information’s release.

The move also comes as the US is coming ever closer to an agreement regarding the Iranian nuclear program with the state that funds terrorist organizations that have vowed to destroy Israel and other western countries. The impending agreement has been highly criticized by Israel for many years.

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