Word: dimona
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...capability, though, they could easily have it, as could the West Germans, who renounced all nuclear weapons in 1956 as a condition for joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Israel also could quickly become a nuclear power. Since the late 1950s it has had a large atomic reactor at Dimona in the Negev desert; the reactor has been turning out enough fissionable material over the past ten years to build at least one Hiroshima-size bomb annually. Because a bomb can be physically assembled in a matter of weeks if all materials are ready, Israel for all practical purposes could...