In the depths of the Cold War, a legendary Israeli spy made a visit to a Pennsylvania plant that processed government-supplied U-235 uranium into fuel for the U.S. Navy. Around the same…
Month: February 2015
US Confirmed Existence of Israeli H-Bomb Program in 1987
The 1987 report’s confirmation of Israel’s advanced nuclear weapons program should have immediately triggered a cutoff in all U.S. aid to Israel under the Symington and Glenn Amendments to the US Foreign…
DOD Report Details Israel’s Quest for Hydrogen Bomb
In the midst of controversy over the Israeli prime minister’s plans to address Congress next month, a researcher has won the release of a decades-old Defense Department report detailing the U.S. government’s…
IRmep wins release of Pentagon report detailing aspects of Israel’s nuclear weapons production facilities
IRmep filed a 34 page federal lawsuit (PDF) to compel the Department of Defense to release a report commissioned by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (International Programs and Technology). After a fight…
Obama, what about Israel’s nuclear arsenal?
It is disappointing, if not disturbing, that US President Barack Obama avoided airing any views about the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict in an hour-long interview about US foreign policy issues with CNN’s much-respected…
New details on Israel’s nuclear weapons, Netanyahu’s role in krytron smuggling
Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints on Pacifica radio interviews Grant F. Smith on the newly released report “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations.” Interview follows the Corries and Gareth Porter on…