Study estimates Israel's nuclear weapon count stands at 115

[DavidSling]

a study conducted by the US based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) estimated that Israel had 115 nuclear bombs in its possession in 2014. The study was composed by the institute's founder David Albright, and was part of a more comprehensive study on the worldwide inventory of plutonium.

The study estimated that Israel produced plutonium at a rapid pace in the past 50 years since the inception of its nuclear reactor in Dimona, acquiring 660 kilograms of plutonium, taking into account an estimation error of 150 kilograms.

A single nuclear bomb requires 3-5 kg of plutonium, the study estimated.

Albright's estimation of Israel's nuclear bomb inventory differed from previous studies; Estimations based on the revelations of Mordechai Vanunu, the former technician at the Dimona nuclear plant who was imprisoned for 18 years for divulging secrets related to Israel’s purported nuclear weapons program, stood at 200. A study by Sweden's Peace Institute estimated the count at 80 bombs.

Albright's study reiterated previous suspicions that Israel's nuclear weapons are produced in the vicinity of Haifa in northern Israel.

It also delved into the myriad of nuclear-weapon delivery vehicles at the disposal of Israel.

Israel developed the Jericho-ballistic missile, according to Albright, along with nuclear-capable cruise missiles and an aircraft that can deliver nuclear weapons. Israel may also have the technology to launch missiles from its submarines, Albright reported.

According to the study, Israel also has the advanced know how to miniaturize nuclear warheads and fit them on missiles.

 

[yugocrosrb95]

For sake of balance, Iran must have equal capacity as Israel.

Israel is ruled by radicals comparable to Hitler and Mussolini.

 

[DavidSling]

For sake of balance, Iran must have equal capacity as Israel.

Israel is ruled by radicals comparable to Hitler and Mussolini.

And Iran is ruled by loving bunnies rait?

 

[anon45]

That is a very very unfortunate acronym right now

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

I've read they have 'The Samson Option' also; stragicaly placed nukes in world capitals. How true this is, I don't know, but they are psycho so I wouldn't put it past them.

 

[DavidSling]

I've read they have 'The Samson Option' also; stragicaly placed nukes in world capitals. How true this is, I don't know, but they are psycho so I wouldn't put it past them.

Well, any nation that posses nukes are "psychos" in my opinion, including usa and russia, pakistan and india.

 

[Pak_Sher]

Israel's nuclear weapons program is leading to other countries pursuing nuclear programs because they feel threatened by it. Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria. ....

 

[DavidSling]

Israel's nuclear weapons program is leading to other countries pursuing nuclear programs because they feel threatened by it. Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria. ....

And Israel nuclear program started because it felt threatened by the arab world, for example 48 war when 5 arab armies invaded the just born state.
same reason why India and Pakistan developed theirs - cus they felt threatened by one another

 

[Pak_Sher]

And Israel nuclear program started because it felt threatened by the arab world, for example 48 war when 5 arab armies invaded the just born state.
same reason why India and Pakistan developed theirs - cus they felt threatened by one another

That is my point that Israel and its neighbors will develop nuclear weapons for each other's fear.

 

[masud]

iran should also build nuclear weapons................

 

[C130]

For sake of balance, Iran must have equal capacity as Israel.

Israel is ruled by radicals comparable to Hitler and Mussolini.

great now only wouldn't we have two hot heads in Pakistan and India with nuclear weapons pointed at each other, but now you want Iran to have them as well???


South Korea should have a deterrence as well with that logic to balance the scale with North Korea.

I can just see the saber rattling increasing 100 fold

 

[jammersat]

For sake of balance, Iran must have equal capacity as Israel.

Israel is ruled by radicals comparable to Hitler and Mussolini.

Iran does have a couple from places like ukraine , while 115 bombs might be too many for israel , iran only needs 1 or 2 to be dropped on Tel-Aviv Yafo for all the jews to inflate their boats and drop them to the Mediterranean

like the grand imam said : everybody knows how israel is a one - bomb nation

 

[DavidSling]

Iran does have a couple from places like ukraine , while 115 bombs might be too many for israel , iran only needs 1 or 2 to be dropped on Tel-Aviv Yafo for all the jews to inflate their boats and drop them to the Mediterranean

like the grand imam said : everybody knows how israel is a one - bomb nation

And 115 fission or/and fusion bombs are enought to annihilate any nation.
fact is that nuclear power could easly force another world war and statement like the one I replied to - killing millions of people not matter what their religion or background is - it's just wrong...

 

[jammersat]

And 115 fission or/and fusion bombs are enought to annihilate any nation.
fact is that nuclear power could easly force another world war and statement like the one I replied to - killing millions of people not matter what their religion or background is - it's just wrong...

Iran acquired their nukes from former soviet republics , that's the early 1990's ; things have changed since then , nowadays , iran's shahab , sejjil , emad , etc. inventory of medium range ballistic missiles outnumber the israeli jerischo , shavit show , by a ratio of 1000000000:1 , iran can launch their MRBM's against israel from the furthest corners of iran , and they can do so with the chemical , and biological warheads that iran produces on its own , if one or two nukes aren't enough for the jewish nation

i never said it's plain ok to wipe out another country because of their religious / ethnic background , i myself , hate neo-nazis and americans as much as i hate jewish extremists who enjoy messing with iranians for no apparent reason ... But you have to realize that israel is only a card that iran plays against the USA , iran simply knows it will lose an all out war with the USA , so it's essentially taking israel hostage , not only iran can target israel in case of a war , it has it's own jewish population which counts above 40,000 ; they can perform a mini-holocaust inside iran too

115 fission or/and fusion ..

There's not an and or , fission and fusion bombs are quite different , maybe you can wipe out a city like tehran with a dozen fusion (hydrogen) bombs , but you will need all your 115 fission bombs to completely raze a place like tehran

 

[DavidSling]

Iran acquired their nukes from former soviet republics , that's the early 1990's ; things have changed since then , nowadays , iran's shahab , sejjil , emad , etc. inventory of medium range ballistic missiles outnumber the israeli jerischo , shavit show , by a ratio of 1000000000:1 , iran can launch their MRBM's against israel from the furthest corners of iran , and they can do so with the chemical , and biological warheads that iran produces on its own , if one or two nukes aren't enough for the jewish nation

i never said it's plain ok to wipe out another country because of their religious / ethnic background , i myself , hate neo-nazis and americans as much as i hate jewish extremists who enjoy messing with iranians for no apparent reason ... But you have to realize that israel is only a card that iran plays against the USA , iran simply knows it will lose an all out war with the USA , so it's essentially taking israel hostage , not only iran can target israel in case of a war , it has it's own jewish population which counts above 40,000 ; they can perform a mini-holocaust inside iran too

Few points:
*Iran missile quantity most likely didn't outnumber Israel missile quantity (the long range missiles)
*Israel posses the technological edge over Iran in any military aspect.
*Israel missile's technology is probably more mature than Iran's missile's program(quality)
*Israel anti missile shield is more mature than iran's missile shield (ARROW 2 and ARROW 3)
*Israel's jericho missile believed to have a range greater than 5000 KM(based on shavit) according to foreign media
*Israel do posses chemical and biological weapons in mass quantity and in good quality according to foreign media
*Israel posses the second strike ability from it's submarines according to foreign media.
*their are extremists on all sides of the conflict and believe it or not in the iranian public too (shouting death to america and to Israel and burning their flags which doesn't occur in the Israeli public against iranians)
*Iran-Israel conflict can be reflected to power game btw Russia and USA or between the western world to the arab world.
*territory length and width barley matters in a war which include mass quantities of fission and fusion bombs.