US Leaks Information regarding Israel’s Nuclear Capabilities
Mar 31, 2015
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עברית (Hebrew)Early last month the Pentagon quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel’s nuclear program. The 386-page report entitled “Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations” gives a detailed description of how Israel advanced its military technology and developed its nuclear infrastructure and research in the 1970s and 1980s.
Israel is “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,” reveals the report, stating that in the 1980s Israelis were reaching the ability to create bombs considered a thousand times more powerful than atom bombs.
The revelation marks a first in which the US published in a document a description of how Israel attained hydrogen bombs. The report also notes that research laboratories in Israel “are equivalent to our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories,” the key labs in developing America’s nuclear arsenal.
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Israel’s nuclear infrastructure is “an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories,” it adds. “As far as nuclear technology is concerned the Israelis are roughly where the U.S. was in the fission weapon field in about 1955 to 1960,” the report reveals, noting a time frame just after America tested its first hydrogen bomb.
The Institute for Defense Analysis, a federally funded agency operating under the Pentagon, penned the report back in 1987. Aside from nuclear capabilities, the report revealed Israel at the time had “a totally integrated effort in systems development throughout the nation.” Electronic combat was planned all in one “integrated system, rather than separated systems for the Army, Navy and Air Force.”
The document even acknowledged that in some cases, Israeli military technology “is more advanced than in the U.S.” According to sources in the Israeli defense establishment the release of this document at the present time demonstrates the growing rift between Washington and Jerusalem.
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