US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes

[unhappycamper]

US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes
March 18, 2009
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

The Army has let slip one of the worst-kept secrets in the world -- that Israel has the bomb.

Officially, the United States has a policy of "ambiguity" regarding Israel's nuclear capability. Essentially, it has played a game by which it neither acknowledges nor denies that Israel is a nuclear power.

But a Defense Department study completed last year offers what may be the first time in a unclassified report that Israel is a nuclear power. On page 37 of the U.S. Joint Forces Command report, the Army includes Israel within "a growing arc of nuclear powers running from Israel in the west through an emerging Iran to Pakistan, India, and on to China, North Korea, and Russia in the east."

The single reference is far more than the U.S. usually would state publicly about Israel, even though the world knew Israel to be a nuclear power years before former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu went public with facts on its weapons program in 1986.

Several years later investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published "The Samson Option," detailing Israel's strategy of massive nuclear retaliation against Arab states in the event it felt its very existence was threatened. Israel's nuclear arsenal has been estimated to range from 200 to 400 warheads.

Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/March-2009/us-army-confirms-israeli-nukes.html?col=1186032369115

[pleah]

1. Ooopsy!

Sheesh, when I was a kid it was always said that there were enough nukes to blow up the world ten times over. If Israel fires just one, it is all over but the shouting. Why then would they need that many?

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R. Yikes! I thought that the US was opposed to any country in this region possessing nukes...

Considering the very real conflicts in this region, Lebanon, Gaza, the loss of Iraq as a check on Iran, there is very real cause for concern... :scared:

[GoesTo11]

3. Wow. I never even suspected.

Nuclear weapons? Really? Right under our noses? And all this time I thought they were making harmonicas.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Shocked. I am shocked

I tell you.