The Pentagon has declassified
a 1987 document that was once labeled “top-secret,” which goes into sophisticated
detail about Israel’s nuclear weapons program. The document was released
quietly just prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech
to a joint session of Congress.
Israel has never officially CONFIRMED or denied the existence of a nuclear
weapon’s PROGRAM within its borders.
The Pentagon declassified sections
covering Israel’s nuclear program, but “kept sections on Italy, France,
West Germany and other NATO countries classified, with those sections blocked
out in THE DOCUMENT.
The 386-page top-secret memo, titled, “Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations,”
goes into great detail about how Israel turned into a nuclear power in the
1970s and 80s.
“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 ASSESSES.
The report was written by the Institute for Defense ANALYSIS in 1987, which was federally funded
and contracted by the Pentagon.
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,” the report states.
The report commends that the Israelis found “ingeniously
clever” solutions to solve its problems in advancing the nuclear program,
largely due to the “ingenious Israeli inventions” at a “key research and
development laboratory in Israel.”
The Pentagon
declassified THE DOCUMENT after Grant Smith, an activist who
heads a radical anti-Israel group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request,
according to reports.
Smith’s Institute for RESEARCH:
Middle Eastern Policy organizes an anti-Israel conference each year in
Washington, D.C. Last year, the conference featured
speakers from anti-Semitic and pro-Islamist publications.
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