- 4 june 2010
Israeli Nuclear Terrorism
31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 15 aug 2010
U.S. satellites pick up Israeli nuclear tests
LONDON - A British scientist announced that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has evidence of Israeli nuclear testing, noting that a report of a sudden double flash detected by an American satellite was declassified in 2004.
Norman Dombey, a professor at the University of Sussex, wrote in the Guardian newspaper Friday in response to the questioning of Israeli nuclear tests, that a CIA report dating back to 1979 stated that a double flash, which is characteristic of nuclear explosions, was captured in the southern Atlantic Ocean by an American Vela satellite, which was launched to detect nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
The professor wrote that according to the CIA report, “In September 1979 some special security measures were put into effect which indicate that certain elements of the South African navy were exercising or on alert. The harbor and naval base at Simonstown were declared on 23 August to be off limits for the period 17-23 September … Also, the Saldanha naval facility was suddenly placed on alert for the period 21-23 September.”
“The Israelis might have conceivably foreseen needs for more advanced weapons, such as low-yield nuclear weapons that could be used on the battlefield. Or they might have considered desirable a small tactical nuclear warhead for Israel's short-range Lance surface-to-surface missiles. Israeli strategists might even have been interested in developing the fission trigger for a thermonuclear weapon,” the report said.
If the Israelis developed such reliable nuclear weapons, they would certainly have needed to test them, so the evidence of Israeli nuclear experimentation is strong if not decisive, Professor Dombe said.
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Maria 15 aug 2010
'End Israel's nuclear secrecy'
Arab League urges US and others to push for int'l inspections.
VIENNA — Ignoring a US warning, Arab nations urged Washington and other powers to end support of Israel's nuclear secrecy and to push Israel to allow international inspections of its program, diplomats told The Associated Press Sunday.
Islamic nations have long called for Israel to open its nuclear program. But the fact that the Arab League has directly approached Washington and other Israeli allies for support at the September meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency is significant, considering that US President Barack Obama last month warned against using that forum to single out Israel.
Obama then suggested that such a move would likely kill hopes of breakthrough talks on a Mideast nuclear-free zone, as proposed by the UN's 189-nation Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference three months ago.
Over Israeli objections, the planned 2012 talks were backed by the US and other nuclear powers for the first time since Arab nations pushed for such a gathering 15 years ago.
The Arab appeal to pressure Israel to open its nuclear program to inspectors also threatens to deflect attention from Iran, which Washington and its allies now consider a grave nuclear proliferation threat, even though Teheran insists it is not developing nuclear weapons.
The Arab appeal is contained in an Aug 8 letter signed by Arab League chief Amr Moussa that was shared with The Associated Press. It asks for backing of a resolution that Arab nations will submit to the September assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
An attached draft of the resolution expresses "concern" about Israel's nuclear program and urges it to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and to open its atomic activities to outside inspection.
Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in a statement last month to "work together to oppose efforts to single out Israel" at the 150-nation International Atomic Energy Agency conference.
On the proposed Mideast nuclear-free zone talks, their statement warned that "any efforts to single out Israel will make the prospects of convening such a conference unlikely."
But the Arab letter says the notion of singling out Israel "is not the case."
"Singling out a state assumes that there are a number of states in the same position and only one state was singled out," the letter says. Referring to the Nonproliferation Treaty, it says: "The fact is that all the states in the region have acceded to the NPT except Israel."
Israel is commonly assumed to have nuclear weapons but refuses to discuss the issue.
Passions have grown since September when the International Atomic Energy Agency assembly overrode Western objections to pass a resolution directly criticizing Israel and its atomic program for the first time in 18 years.
The US and its allies consider Iran the region's greatest proliferation threat, fearing that Teheran is trying to achieve the capacity to make nuclear weapons despite its assertion that it is only building a civilian program to generate power.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=184837 31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 16 aug 2010
More clues to Israel's nuclear weapons status
The 1979 Vela incident in the South Atlantic which Professor Norman Dombey refers to in his letter (13 August) is in fact not the only suspected Israeli nuclear test. There is some evidence that possibly indicates that Israel's first nuclear test took place on 2 November 1966. This suspected test, if it happened, was a zero or near-zero yield test carried out at Dimona site and intended to validate Israel's nuclear design.
The evidence is sparse, but very intriguing. Monya Mardur, the head of the Israeli armament agency Rafael, who was in charge of nuclear development, wrote in his memoir the following passage: "On November 2 1966, a test with a special significance was conducted. It meant an end of an era of development, and a step that brought one of our primary weapons systems to its final phases of development and production in Rafael. The test was completely successful, for we received an unequivocal experimental proof of the adequacy of the system that was developed at Rafael, we have waited for that result for many years."
The CIA, which also got news of the test, estimated in a report of 17 February 1967 that "regardless of what was actually tested ... Israel continued to produce bomb components" and that "assembly could be completed in 6-8 weeks".
More corroboration appears in a story published on 27 February 1967 in the Lebanese newspaper Al Hayat, which reported that in the fall of 1966, Israel had carried out a small-scale nuclear test. The information about the 1966 alleged test and the change in Israel's nuclear status became accepted as the date Israel became nuclear. A British document from 1979 states that: "Successive Israeli governments since 1966 have said that Israel will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East ... We believe the Israelis could quickly assemble about a dozen low-yield weapons without testing for a delivery."
Interestingly, this assumed test could potentially play an important role one day in Israel's non-proliferation treaty politics. The NPT, which Israel is not a member of, defines a nuclear weapon state as a state that tested a nuclear device before 1 January 1967, but does not define a minimum limit for the test.
Theoretically, if Israel decides one day to abandon its nuclear opacity policy, it could demand to join the NPT as a nuclear weapon state by proving it tested on 2 November 1966.
Or Rabinowitz
King's College London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/16/israels-nuclear-weapon-status 31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 16 aug 2010
The United States has been urged to stop supporting Israel's secret nuclear programs
US 'urged to stop supporting Israel'
The United States has been urged to stop supporting Israel's secret nuclear programs and to compel Tel Aviv to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities.
Arab League countries have put pressure on Washington and its allies to take a stand against Israel's nuclear program, diplomats told the Associated Press on Sunday.
The Israeli regime is widely believed to have nuclear weapons but refuses to confirm or deny its possession of an atomic arsenal.
The latest appeal is contained in an August 8 letter signed by Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
An attached draft of the resolution expresses "concern" about Israel's nuclear program, urges it to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and to open its atomic activities to outside inspection.
The Belgian Embassy in Cairo forwarded the letter and the draft to Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere, who currently holds the rotating European Union presidency.
The letter was also sent to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the foreign ministers of Russia, China, Britain and France; the four other permanent UN Security Council members, said diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In September, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assembly passed a resolution, criticizing Israel and its atomic program for the first time in 18 years.
At the September meeting of the IAEA, the Arab League directly approached Washington and other Israeli allies to end their support of Israel.
However, US President Barack Obama last month warned against using the 150-nation IAEA conference to single out Israel.
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to "work together to oppose efforts to single out Israel."
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31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 20 aug 2010
Arabs Lobby U.S. To Confront Israeli Nukes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8zr8xThM4
Arab nations are urging the United States and other powers to end support of Israel's nuclear secrecy and to push the Jewish state to allow international inspections of its program. 31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 23 aug 2010
IAEA chief in Israel, to meet with Peres
Yukia Amano to hold meetings with president, Minister for Strategic Affairs Ya'alon during three-day visit to Jewish state, on backdrop of attempts to include Israel in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Yukia Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Israel on Monday for his first visit since replacing Mohamed ElBaradei last December.
During his visit in Israel, which will last three days, Amano is expected to meet with President Shimon Peres, Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon and Dr. Shaul Horev, director-general of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.
The meeting is being held on the backdrop of renewed attempts to include Israel in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Israel was one of the founding countries of the IAEA in 1957, and is represented in the agency by an ambassador on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Israel has been taking part in many of the activities of the IAEA, which engages in promoting the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and monitors the use of nuclear materials for other purposes.
Amano already met with Peres in January in Davos, Switzerland. The president urged him to act against Iran, warning that "nuclear weapons in the hands of a fanatic leadership like Iranian leadership threaten not just Israel but the entire world."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3942509,00.html 31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 25 aug 2010
IAEA chairman Award: "feel substantial change in relation to Agency for Israel"
After a meeting between the president and chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency critic in the country, President said that the world can not ignore that Israel is a country which takes place under continuous threat since the floor. Our mother his part expressed satisfaction with the visit
http://bit.ly/hWbkDE 31 mar 2012, 23:14 , Respect -
Maria 1 sept 2010
UN agency fails to stage nuke-free Mideast talks
Tensions between Israel and Islamic nations have scuttled plans by the UN atomic watchdog agency to convene talks this year on a Mideast free of nuclear weapons, according to a document shared with The Associated Press.
The latest failure to bring the opposing sides to the table casts further doubt on plans to hold more substantive talks in two years on such a zone, as proposed by the UN's 189-nation Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference four months ago.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3947828,00.html 31 mar 2012, 23:15 , Respect -
Maria 3 sept 2010
IAEA chief asks Israel to join nuclear NPT
VIENNA The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
A report by the Vienna-based watchdog made public Friday says agency chief Yukiya Amano "invited Israel to consider to accede" to the treaty during a low-key visit to the country last month.
The report, made public Friday, also contained a July 26 letter from Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman that pointed the finger at Iran and Syria as the region's "real proliferation challenges."
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=186996 31 mar 2012, 23:16 , Respect -
Maria 4 sept 2010
'IAEA can not check Israeli nuclear sites'
Israel's top-secret nuclear facility in the southern Israeli town of Dimona.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) acknowledges that the nuclear watchdog can not monitor and assess Israel's undisclosed nuclear sites.
The IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said on Friday that Tel Aviv had restricted the agency in examining its nuclear potentials.
Amano's comments were made public in a report to the Vienna-based watchdog's Board of Governors.
In his visit to Israel last month, Amano called on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Tel Aviv, however, refuses to confirm it possesses a nuclear arsenal, estimated to be between 200 and 400 nuclear warheads. Israel is considered to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East.
Amano also said he has asked Israel to "place all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA safeguards," AFP reported.
Meanwhile, the report expressed "concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities," and linked it "to concern about the threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons for the security and stability of the Middle East."
Tel Aviv has rejected Amano's comments, arguing that his report is politically motivated. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the IAEA intended to divert attention from Iran and Syria.
The international community, especially the Islamic nations, has been urging Tel Aviv to subject itself to nuclear inspections and to join the NPT.
The latest IAEA report also included more than 40 letters from IAEA member states in response to an April request by Amano for proposals on how to persuade Israel to sign the NPT.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/141132.html