US helped Israel with H-bomb - 1980s report declassified

[Archdemon]

RT Retards Today, Putin's propaganda.

 

[My-Analogous]

US helped Israel with H-bomb - 1980s report declassified — RT USA

Conceding to a federal lawsuit, the US government agreed to release a 1987 Defense Department report detailing US assistance to Israel in its development of a hydrogen bomb, which skirted international standards.

The 386-page report, “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations,” likens top Israeli nuclear facilities to the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories that were key in the development of US nuclear weaponry.

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 release of which comes before Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech in front of the US Congress in which he will oppose any deal that allows Iran's legal nuclear program to persist.

"I am struck by the degree of cooperation on specialized war making devices between Israel and the US," Roger Mattson, a formerly of the Atomic Energy Commission’s technical staff,said of the report, according to Courthouse News.

The report’s release earlier this week was initiated by a Freedom of Information Act request made three years ago by Grant Smith, director of the Washington think tank Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. Smith filed a lawsuit in September in order to compel the Pentagon to substantially address the request.

"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,” Smith said during a hearing in late 2014 before Judge Tanya Chutkan in US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Smith described in his federal court complaint how those federal laws were violated by the US in the midst of Israel’s budding nuclear program.

"The Symington Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 prohibits most U.S. foreign aid to any country found trafficking in nuclear enrichment equipment or technology outside international safeguards,” Smith wrote.

“The Glenn Amendment of 1977 calls for an end to U.S. foreign aid to countries that import nuclear reprocessing technology."

In November, Judge Chutkan asked government lawyers resistant to the report’s release why it had taken years for the government to prepare the report for public consumption.

“I’d like to know what is taking so long for a 386-page document. The document was located some time ago,” Chutkan said, according to Courthouse News Service.

“I've reviewed my share of documents in my career. It should not take that long to review that document and decide what needs to be redacted.”

image from the report “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations"



The government’s representatives in the case -- Special Assistant US Attorney Laura Jennings and Defense Department counsel Mark Herrington -- initially said confidentiality agreements required a“line by line” review of the Defense Department’s report. They later shifted, arguing that its release is optional and not mandatory, as "diplomatic relations dictate that DoD seeks Israel's review."

Smith and the US agreed that the government would redact sections of the report on NATO countries, though the passages on Israel remain intact.

"The capability of SOREQ [Soreq Nuclear Research Center] to support SDIO [Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, or “Star Wars”] and nuclear technologies is almost an exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories," said the report, written by the Institute for Defense Analysis for the Department of Defense.

"SOREQ and Dimona/Beer Sheva facilities are the equivalent of our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories...[and have] the technology base required for nuclear weapons design and fabrication."

The report’s authors Edwin Townsley and Clarence Robinson found that Israel to had Category 1 capability regarding its anti-tactical ballistic missile and “Star Wars” weapons programs.

"As far as nuclear technology is concerned the Israelis are roughly where the U.S. [w]as in the fission weapon field in about 1955 to 1960,” the report said. “It should be noted that the Israelis are developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs."

In a statement on the report’s release, Smith said Thursday, "Informal and Freedom of Information Act release of such information is rare. Under two known gag orders -- punishable by imprisonment -- U.S. security-cleared government agency employees and contractors may not disclose that Israel has a nuclear weapons program."

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US mst be banned for NSG b/c it violet the rules. Let see now what the world say's about it?

 

[Syrian Lion]

I've answered on topic in #5: the original report is just saying that Israel develops codes which may be used for H-bomb. There is nothing about "US help" to develop the H-bomb. Its just another RT crap story. Case closed.

U came here to troll. So I reminded u that u should not throw stones living in glass house.

I'm not trolling, it simple facts the west gave you all their tech and etc... You can sit here all day and deny it, fooling yourself only... Heck even the US government passed bills to give your stuff..

 

[500]

I'm not trolling

Its troll because topic was so called report which I debunked.

it simple facts the west gave you all their tech and etc... You can sit here all day and deny it, fooling yourself only... Heck even the US government passed bills to give your stuff..

Israel is one of the leading weapon producers in the World. What about Assad? What it makes beside barrel bombs?

Made in Israel:

Made in Assadistan:

 

[Syrian Lion]

Its troll because topic was so called report which I debunked.


Israel is one of the leading weapon producers in the World. What about Assad? What it makes beside barrel bombs?

Made in Israel:

Made in Assadistan:

Lol you are trolling, even the so called Israeli made is American funded and were made by Americans but they gave the credit to Israel..

Keep talking about your obsession... No problem with me, I know it's killing you that you bring Syria in a topic that's has nothing to do it with it

 

[beast89]

and america is an arabs best friend they say

 

[Falcon29]

Its troll because topic was so called report which I debunked.


Israel is one of the leading weapon producers in the World. What about Assad? What it makes beside barrel bombs?

Made in Israel:

Made in Assadistan:

This is all American tech transfer doofus.

 

[Serpentine]

LOL who's talking. We dont ask foreigners to fight for us in contrast to Assad.

Israel, a state living on charity money, charity weapons and charity support from west since 1948.

 

[p4kistan]

LOL who's talking. We dont ask foreigners to fight for us in contrast to Assad.

In fact you do, your army is made up of various other nationalities. they may be dual nationals but they are foreigners initially.

 

[Archdemon]

Nothing said about USA help.

 

[SipahSalar]

Look who is engaging in nuclear proliferation...