European Union wants Middle East free of nuclear weapons

[EagleEyes]

European Union wants Middle East free of nuclear weapons

The European Union wants a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, the bloc’s Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana said Thursday, reacting to reports that Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had acknowledged that his government possessed nuclear warheads.

In response to a question whether the EU would take action against Israel over the nuclear issue, Solana noted that Olmert had issued a denial.

"The position of the European Union is very clear," Solana said. "In the long term we don’t want to have the Middle East with weapons of mass destruction."

Since the 1960s, Israel has maintained a policy of ambiguity about its alleged nuclear arsenal, always refusing to confirm or to deny reports that it possessed the weapons.

 

[Cheetah786]

wow now that he had issued a denial its all ok.while iran have given them access to her nuclear plants.atomic monkeys found nothing they still insist on santcions.i see the justice in that.iranians should go full speed ahead with nuclear no how and make the bomb as soon as possible.:GUNS:

 

[Awesome]

The EU doesn't want Arabs to have nukes. Israel's nukes are okay.

 

[EagleEyes]

If E.U and U.S can identify that Iran is building up nuclear weapons, they should be able to identify that Israel has nuclear weapons. Did Israel test its nuclear weapons yet?

 

[Neo]

No, but they've conducted several cold simulations and mastered the technology.

Israeli nuclear arsenal is believed to be around 200 nukes!!!

 

[TomCat111]

Did Israel test its nuclear weapons yet?

Yes...........

Roots of Nuclear Proliferation

Israel: France laid the foundations of Israeli nuclear program on 3 October 1957, by signing an agreement to build a 24 MWt reactor (although the cooling systems and waste facilities were designed to handle three times that power) and, a chemical reprocessing plant in Israel. Under the leadership of Col. Manes Pratt of the IDF Ordinance Corps a secret nuclear complex was constructed at Dimona, Negev desert. France also supplied the heavy water and delivered Uranium for the Israeli plant which went critical in 1964.

Since 1958, the United States had been well aware of the Israel nuclear program, but it did nothing to stop it. Walworth Barbour, US ambassador to Israel from 1961-73, said the "President did not send me there to give him problems. He does not want to be told any bad news." After the 1967 war, Barbour even put a stop to military attachés' intelligence collection efforts around Dimona. In 1966, upon learning Israel was beginning to put nuclear warheads on its missiles, the US embassy staff sent a warning message to Washington, the message disappeared in thin air and was never acted upon.

United Kingdom also generously contributed to the Israeli nuclear program. It supplied Israel plutonium, uranium 235, beryllium, and lithium 6.

Israel is believed to be in possession of up to 200 nuclear weapons. In 1979, in collaboration with South Africa, Israel is suspected to have conducted a nuclear explosion in the southern Indian Ocean.

South Africa: Israel introduced South Africa to the exclusive nuclear weapons club. Israel provided South Africa with technical assistance on its weapons program, in exchange for S. Africa's 300 tons of uranium. “Oppenheimer of Israel” Ernst David Bergmann and several other Israeli nuclear scientists visited South Africa in 1967.

In 1974, Moshe Dayan is reported to have made a secret visit to South Africa and discussed nuclear weapon cooperation, including the possibility of nuclear tests.

Between 1977 and 1978 Israel received 50 tons of natural uranium from South Africa and in return supplied 30 grams of tritium, in 12 separate shipments. Israel is also believed to have provided the bomb design.

Outcome of proliferation: Till July 1990, South Africa was in possession of six nuclear devices as well as the partially completed seventh device.


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[TomCat111]

Did Israel test its nuclear weapons yet?

American satellites caught the detonation. The matter was covered up as sun glare, but the American aircrafts equipped with particle sweepers told another storey.