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US helped Israel develop
hydrogen bomb: Pentagon
report
Home > US > Military Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:39AM
The United States has assisted Israel in
developing a hydrogen bomb, a move which
violated international laws, a declassified report
by the US Department of Defense has revealed.
According to the 1987 report, top Israeli nuclear
facilities were analogous to the Los Alamos and
Oak Ridge National Laboratories which played a
key role in the development of US nuclear
weaponry.
The 386-page report, Critical Technology
Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations, shows
that Israels nuclear sites had the technology
base required to design and produce nuclear
weapons.
Israelis are "developing the kind of codes which
will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That
is, codes which detail fission and fusion
processes on a microscopic and macroscopic
level, said the report.
The report came while Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is due to address the US
Congress next month to put further pressure on
Iran to stop its peaceful nuclear program.
The report was released earlier this week after
Grant Smith, director of the Washington think
tank Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy,
made a Freedom of Information Act request three
years ago.
Smith also lodged a lawsuit in September,
compelling the Pentagon to seriously address the
request.
In his federal court complaint, Smith outlined how
the US failed to comply with federal laws at the
time that Israel was developing a nuclear
program.
"It's our basic position that in 1987 the
Department of Defense discovered that Israel had
a nuclear weapons program, detailed it and then
has covered it up for 25 years in violation of the
Symington and Glenn amendments, costing
taxpayers $86 billion, said Smith during a
hearing before Judge Tanya Chutkan in US
District Court for the District of Columbia in late
2014.
According to the authors of the report, Edwin
Townsley and Clarence Robinson, Israel
possessed Category 1 capability pertaining to its
anti-tactical ballistic missile and Star Wars
weapons programs.
Israel has long defied calls to sign the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty and is believed to have
hundreds of nuclear warheads.
hydrogen bomb: Pentagon
report
Home > US > Military Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:39AM
The United States has assisted Israel in
developing a hydrogen bomb, a move which
violated international laws, a declassified report
by the US Department of Defense has revealed.
According to the 1987 report, top Israeli nuclear
facilities were analogous to the Los Alamos and
Oak Ridge National Laboratories which played a
key role in the development of US nuclear
weaponry.
The 386-page report, Critical Technology
Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations, shows
that Israels nuclear sites had the technology
base required to design and produce nuclear
weapons.
Israelis are "developing the kind of codes which
will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That
is, codes which detail fission and fusion
processes on a microscopic and macroscopic
level, said the report.
The report came while Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is due to address the US
Congress next month to put further pressure on
Iran to stop its peaceful nuclear program.
The report was released earlier this week after
Grant Smith, director of the Washington think
tank Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy,
made a Freedom of Information Act request three
years ago.
Smith also lodged a lawsuit in September,
compelling the Pentagon to seriously address the
request.
In his federal court complaint, Smith outlined how
the US failed to comply with federal laws at the
time that Israel was developing a nuclear
program.
"It's our basic position that in 1987 the
Department of Defense discovered that Israel had
a nuclear weapons program, detailed it and then
has covered it up for 25 years in violation of the
Symington and Glenn amendments, costing
taxpayers $86 billion, said Smith during a
hearing before Judge Tanya Chutkan in US
District Court for the District of Columbia in late
2014.
According to the authors of the report, Edwin
Townsley and Clarence Robinson, Israel
possessed Category 1 capability pertaining to its
anti-tactical ballistic missile and Star Wars
weapons programs.
Israel has long defied calls to sign the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty and is believed to have
hundreds of nuclear warheads.
