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...been a year of jolting change for Mordechai Vanunu. Until last November he had worked as a technician in Israel's top-secret nuclear research center at Dimona in the Negev desert. Then Vanunu, 32, was dismissed from his job, ostensibly as part of a government cost-cutting move. He left Israel last spring on a vacation trip that took him to Greece, Bangkok and finally Sydney, Australia, where he reportedly converted to Christianity. Then he and a shadowy Colombian journalist hit upon a plan: they would sell Vanunu's inside account of Israel's nuclear defense program, never before...
...close to that goal. The major example of that ambiguous status known as having "a bomb in the basement" is Israel. The Israelis probably developed an atomic weapon as early as 1968, in all likelihood using reprocessed plutonium from their top-secret, French-built research reactor at Dimona, in the Negev desert. By 1973, Israel was believed to possess at least 13 nuclear weapons...
...mention was made then of the fact that the CIA had concluded in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons of its own or that Israel, unlike Iraq, has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and will not allow inspectors to visit its reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert...
...Ends of Power, Haldeman with DiMona...
...Ends of Power, Haldeman with DiMona...