> They most certainly could have purified the materials themself. Know how? Yes. Actually do it? Likely not -- starting with just common uranium, it's a lot

> They most certainly could have purified the materials themself. Know how? Yes. Actually do it? Likely not -- starting with just common uranium, it's a lot of work and a big installation to get to weapons grade uranium or plutonium, and hiding that installation would not have been easy. Easy or not, the old story was that Israel got the bomb materials, plutonium, from the US accounting error, deliberately done and covered up in the US. My point in my post was to suggest that the OP, considering current and recent events in the Mideast, was to remind enemies of Israel that Israel does have nuke bombs and did get the plutonium from the US via an effort in Pennsylvania. Again, that story is old -- I heard it long ago and saw it essentially repeated in the movie The Sum of All Fears. That is, my comment was to mention a possibly curious purpose to the OP. This conjecture about the purpose of the OP can continue to stand whatever the truth was about how Israel got, if they ever did, materials for nuke bombs. Tough for me to believe that the highly technical HN audience had so much difficulty with my post.