The US strongly suspected in the early 60s. They physically inspected in 1963-1965 but couldn't find serious proof. It was only around 1973 that the US become certain that Israel had such weapons.
Kennedy and the Israelis had a serious confrontation over this in the mid 60s, the Israelis were evasive secretive and generally uncooperative.
Kennedy was of course mysteriously assassinated in 1963.
The Israeli's secretly pursued a nuclear weapons program, but were much further along that Iran ever came even close to, but you didn't bomb them, very odd that, I wonder why...
Anyway perhaps the world's most advanced spy ship was unwelcome given the sensitivity and Israel's fanatical determination to do whatever the **** it wants no matter what the consequences are.
You know Jack Sh!t about the history of Zionist Israel and how they even
sacrifice their own soldiers.
Do some reading, bigly.
As always, nothing but whacky conspiracy theories from you. What the Israelis wanted to do was to live in peace but the Arabs would have none of it:
War of Extermination
An October 11, 1947 report on the pan-Arab summit in the Lebanese town of Aley,
[9] by
Akhbar al-Yom‘s editor Mustafa Amin, contained an interview he held with Arab League secretary-general Azzam. Titled, “A War of Extermination,” the interview read as follows (translated by Efraim Karsh; all ellipses are in the original text):
Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha spoke to me about the horrific war that was in the offing… saying:
“I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Tartar massacre
[10] or the Crusader wars. I believe that the number of volunteers from outside Palestine will be larger than Palestine’s Arab population, for I know that volunteers will be arriving to us from [as far as] India, Afghanistan, and China to win the honor of martyrdom for the sake of Palestine … You might be surprised to learn that hundreds of Englishmen expressed their wish to volunteer in the Arab armies to fight the Jews.
“This war will be distinguished by three serious matters. First—faith: as each fighter deems his death on behalf of Palestine as the shortest road to paradise; second, [the war] will be an opportunity for vast plunder. Third, it will be impossible to contain the zealous volunteers arriving from all corners of the world to avenge the martyrdom of the Palestine Arabs, and viewing the war as dignifying every Arab and every Muslim throughout the world …
“The Arab is superior to the Jew in that he accepts defeat with a smile: Should the Jews defeat us in the first battle, we will defeat them in the second or the third battle … or the final one… whereas one defeat will shatter the Jew’s morale! Most desert Arabians take pleasure in fighting. I recall being tasked with mediating a truce in a desert war (in which I participated) that lasted for nine months…While en route to sign the truce, I was approached by some of my comrades in arms who told me: ‘Shame on you! You are a man of the people, so how could you wish to end the war … How can we live without war?’ This is because war gives the Bedouin a sense of happiness, bliss, and security that peace does not provide! …
“I warned the Jewish leaders I met in London to desist from their policy,
[11] telling them that the Arab was the mightiest of soldiers and the day he draws his weapon, he will not lay it down until firing the last bullet in the battle, and we will fire the last shot …"
He [Azzam] ended his conversation with me by saying: “I foresee the consequences of this bloody war. I see before me its horrible battles. I can picture its dead, injured, and victims … But my conscience is clear … For we are not attacking but defending ourselves, and we are not aggressors but defenders against an aggression! …"
Of the countless threats of violence, made by Arab and Palestinian leaders in the run up to and in the wake of the November 29, 1947 partition resolution, none has resonated more widely than the warning by Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Arab League's first
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So a few years after the Holocaust the Arabs were threatening another genocide against the Jews, and it was clear to everyone that is the Israelis were to survive, they would have to become and remain technologically superior to all their would be enemies, and that meant, in part, obtaining the world's most fearsome weapon, the atomic bomb. No other country has ever had a greater need to develop nuclear weapons than Israel did.
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