Declassified Report: US Helped Israel Obtain Hydrogen Bomb (sputniknews)

[Purveyor]

15.02.2015(updated 01:08 16.02.2015)

The US assisted Israel in developing the hydrogen bomb, according to a declassified report by the US Department of Defense. The move violated international laws the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act enacted in 1978 which codified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty the US signed.

The arrangement also violated the Symington Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which prohibits most U.S. foreign aid to countries found to be trafficking in nuclear enrichment equipment or technology.

The 1987 report “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations,” details how Israel’s nuclear development sites obtained the technology required to design and produce nuclear weapons. The labs were “strikingly” similar to the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories where much of the research was done for developing the US nuclear armory.

It had long been thought that Israel could not have developed nuclear weapons technology without US assistance and the report now makes it evident they had it.

The report was released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Grant Smith, director of the Washington think tank Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, three years ago.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. Israel on nuclear weapons is the ultimate example of "we got ours, you can not have yours".

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Or "We're special and you're not"

[Fred Sanders]

4. And "We get to pretend we do not have hundreds of nuclear weapons so we do not have to sign

any treaties".

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. And "we get to start back door wars with other neighbors so they don't get to develop any nukes"

[roamer65]

2. Imagine that...the US shitting on a treaty we signed.

Just like we did with every one we signed with Native Americans.

[Fumesucker]

5. Isn't that the treaty that Iran is so horrible for not adhering strictly to?

[MohRokTah]

6. I can't trust sputniknews, but it would not surprise me if we did. eom

[Purveyor]

8. The link in the OP, which was not provided by sputnik, takes you to the actual report if

you care to read it.

Of course one could wait for NBC to report on it to get the 'real story'...

[KoKo]

11. Yes...the article is verified if one takes the effort.

Hopefully, some will.

[Hekate]

9. 130 page pdf that I can't seem to delete. Thanks a bunch.

[Purveyor]

10. Give it time. Took this old east german surplus system I'm running awhile

to swallow the whole thing myself as it does any pdf that large.

Sorry.