That of the nuclear weapons program of Israel

The Federation of American Scientists and the International Institute for Peace Research in Stockholm, An independent international organization dedicated to research on arms control and disarmament, estimates that Israel has 90 nuclear warheads.

Due to the official position of the ambiguity of Israel concerning its nuclear program, organizations note the difficulties in determining the extent of the country’s nuclear capacities.

“They are intentionally secretly on their nuclear capacities and that is part of the policy they follow,” said John Erath, main policies director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, in a telephone interview on Wednesday.

He said politics was probably partly to ensure that “potential adversaries of Israel cannot know what they can do in the event of a crisis”.

How it started

Historical files suggest that Israeli leaders hoped to build a nuclear arsenal to help ensure the security of the country after its foundation in 1948 in the years following the Holocaustaccording to the Jewish virtual library, An online encyclopedia published by the non -profit organization of the American analyst of foreign policy Mitchell Bard.

In a reported note in July 1969 to President Richard Nixon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that Israel “committed not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East”, when buying the United States ghost plane, although it has never been precisely what it means.

MORDECHAI VanunuA former Israeli nuclear technician who worked in the Israeli atomic reactor in Dimona in the Negev desert in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, sent shock waves worldwide when he disclosed details and photographs of the reactor to the British Sunday Times newspaper.