60 years of denial about Israel’s nuclear weapons program confronts a new reality

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The article revisits the history of Israel's nuclear weapons program and the decades-long policy of official denial, beginning with a reported US diplomatic observation of construction in the Negev in 1960. It describes how the program's history is being reassessed amid changing circumstances, though the supplied excerpt provides few details about the new developments.

A group of American diplomats was riding in an Israeli helicopter in early 1960 when one of them spotted a construction site rising out of the Negev desert about 20 miles west of the Dead Sea. The US official pointed and asked the party’s Israeli escort, Addy Cohen from the country’s Finance Ministry, what it … The post 60 years of denial about Israel’s nuclear weapons program confronts a new reality appeared first on Egypt Independent.