…..Whatever these revelations would precipitate remains to be seen. But it is interesting to note that the focus of US (and international) attention dwarfs another “amazing” but little noticed revelation last May when the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) partially declassified another secret document held behind closed doors for 32 years “in spite of the best efforts of researchers to dislodge it”.
Notwithstanding the “tantalising’ title of the revealed document ‘Nuclear Diversion in the US? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion‘, Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep), asserted that the ‘quest for more information about the US-Israel nuclear relationship is far from over.'”
IRmep followed up with holding a panel discussion on this sensitive issue publicly and boldly under the heading, ‘Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future‘, at, of all places, the impressive International Spy Museum in Washington.
Smith detailed “how coerced ‘ambiguity’ about Israel’s nuclear weapons undermines accountability here in the United States”. Disappointingly, IRmep’s panel discussion received little press attention in the US or in the Arab world despite the shocking details which merit full exposure….More