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Didn't the US originally provide those nuclear weapons?
by mhluongo 10y ago
Didn't the US originally provide those nuclear weapons?
- dtnewman 10y agoActually, the US didn't have much to do with Israel's early development of nuclear weapons. It was the French who helped them setup a nuclear reactor originally. They also had many (Jewish) former Soviet scientists who fled to Israel. The strong US-Israel military relationship is a more recent development.
- mhluongo 10y agoI should've included a "I have no idea what I'm talking about" disclaimer. Thanks for the info, just read a bit more about it.
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- sangnoir 10y ago> Didn't the US originally provide those nuclear weapons? Developed independently of the US[1], in cooperation with the apartheid government of South Africa. South Africa went on to become the first (if not only) country to voluntarily give up it's nuclear weapons program, right on the cusp of black rule. Officially, the US does not/will not acknowledge Israel's nuclear capability.
- mhluongo 10y agoIt sounds like France and the UK both played a part in early nuclear weapons development in Israel as well.