key2thecup Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program Obama revenge for Netanyahu's Congress talk? 1987 report on Israel's top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move. Dimona nuclear reactor circa 1960s In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel's nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent. But by publishing the declassified document from 1987, the US reportedly breached the silent agreement to keep quiet on Israel's nuclear powers for the first time ever, detailing the nuclear program in great depth. The timing of the revelation is highly suspect, given that it came as tensions spiraled out of control between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama ahead of Netanyahu's March 3 address in Congress, in which he warned against the dangers of Iran's nuclear program and how the deal being formed on that program leaves the Islamic regime with nuclear breakout capabilities. Another highly suspicious aspect of the document is that while the Pentagon saw fit to declassify sections on Israel's sensitive nuclear program, it kept sections on Italy, France, West Germany and other NATO countries classified, with those sections blocked out in the document. The 386-page report entitled "Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations" gives a detailed description of how Israel advanced its military technology and developed its nuclear infrastructure and research in the 1970s and 1980s. Israel is "developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level," reveals the report, stating that in the 1980s Israelis were reaching the ability to create bombs considered a thousand times more powerful than atom bombs. The revelation marks a first in which the US published in a document a description of how Israel attained hydrogen bombs. The report also notes research laboratories in Israel "are equivalent to our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories," the key labs in developing America's nuclear arsenal. Israel's nuclear infrastructure is "an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories," it adds. "As far as nuclear technology is concerned the Israelis are roughly where the U.S. was in the fission weapon field in about 1955 to 1960," the report reveals, noting a time frame just after America tested its first hydrogen bomb. Institute for Defense Analysis, a federally funded agency operating under the Pentagon, penned the report back in 1987. Aside from nuclear capabilities, the report revealed Israel at the time had "a totally integrated effort in systems development throughout the nation," with electronic combat all in one "integrated system, not separated systems for the Army, Navy and Air Force." It even acknowledged that in some cases, Israeli military technology "is more advanced than in the U.S." Declassifying the report comes at a sensitive timing as noted above, and given that the process to have it published was started three years ago, that timing is seen as having been the choice of the American government. US journalist Grant Smith petitioned to have the report published based on the Freedom of Information Act. Initially the Pentagon took its time answering, leading Smith to sue, and a District Court judge to order the Pentagon to respond to the request. Smith, who heads the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, reportedly said he thinks this is the first time the US government has officially confirmed that Israel is a nuclear power, a status that Israel has long been widely known to have despite being undeclared. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193175 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webster6 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Israel no longer the United States' side chick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejazz97 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Israel no longer the United States' side chick? The US got jealous when Israel got the house and kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Israel no longer the United States' side chick? more like a slight thaw in the relationship... don't worry it won't last much longer when the next republican President (god forbid that doesn't happen) comes into power.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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taxi Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The docs were declassified in early February, which was before the Congress speach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 No good can come from this revelation. It was obvious that they had them, but the Muslim world could tell their people that it had never been confirmed. Queue China selling even more nuke technology and know-how to the Middle East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 "Forbid" - EDIT IT NOW!!!!! Thanks lol.. No good can come from this revelation. It was obvious that they had them, but the Muslim world could tell their people that it had never been confirmed. Queue China selling even more nuke technology and know-how to the Middle East. I don't think a Muslim country will have a nuke anytime soon.. It's kinda remarkable how Pakistan is the only country to have one.. but also scary at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 more like a slight thaw in the relationship... don't worry it won't last much longer when the next republican President (god forbid that doesn't happen) comes into power.. You hit the nail bang on brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thanks lol.. I don't think a Muslim country will have a nuke anytime soon.. It's kinda remarkable how Pakistan is the only country to have one.. but also scary at the same time. As long as India and Pakistan play nice with each other, the nukes from both countries cancel each other out. Iran will be the next Middle East country to have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fateless Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The United States politics never ceases to disgust me. On the international state, they come across like the most manipulative, underhanded and abusive country. Oh, America didn't like the way democracy operated in Israel by picking who the majority wanted? Better kick mud in their face and declassify all their secrets. Oh, there is oil in the middle east? Better sweep in and take a bunch of land in the name of "peacekeeping". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The United States politics never ceases to disgust me. On the international state, they come across like the most manipulative, underhanded and abusive country. Oh, America didn't like the way democracy operated in Israel by picking who the majority wanted? Better kick mud in their face and declassify all their secrets. Oh, there is oil in the middle east? Better sweep in and take a bunch of land in the name of "peacekeeping". Read the article. The wheels were put into motion 2-3 years ago. They were declassified and released a few weeks before the Israeli election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The United States politics never ceases to disgust me. On the international state, they come across like the most manipulative, underhanded and abusive country. Oh, America didn't like the way democracy operated in Israel by picking who the majority wanted? Better kick mud in their face and declassify all their secrets. Oh, there is oil in the middle east? Better sweep in and take a bunch of land in the name of "peacekeeping". which country do you admire, politically speaking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webster6 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 As long as India and Pakistan play nice with each other, the nukes from both countries cancel each other out. Iran will be the next Middle East country to have them. "I took the nukes and Iran to Iraq." - Intelligence the 2003 Iraq invasion was based off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejazz97 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 which country do you admire, politically speaking? There really aren't any, and if there are, they haven't been publicized as only major mistakes and decisions get noticed, not quietly doing good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 There really aren't any, and if there are, they haven't been publicized as only major mistakes and decisions get noticed, not quietly doing good. This... almost all countries have a shameful past/present. How about Iceland or Greenland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Anyone interested in this should google project flower , a joint military project that involved israel and iran trying to build a rocket that coulb be fitted with a nuclear warhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 which country do you admire, politically speaking? Easter Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 "I took the nukes and Iran to Iraq." - Intelligence the 2003 Iraq invasion was based off. Colin Powell to this day is upset that Cheney and co. fed him false information to present to the UN. He ended up looking foolish because of those lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Colin Powell to this day is upset that Cheney and co. fed him false information to present to the UN. He ended up looking foolish because of those lies. Apparently this is all a charade by Powell to seem like the lesser of the two evils.. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/newly-released-memos-of-donald-rumsfeld-prove-knowing-iraq-war.html He knew about the false pretences before the UN speech, and was following orders by his bosses. This memo by Rumsfeld makes me lawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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