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Wayne.B

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On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:41:16 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:07:07 -0400, Wayne.B
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:42:04 -0400, KC wrote:

If we had not given Israel nukes, they would not feel the need to have
them.

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Interesting assertion. Do you know that for a fact?

The Plutonium came from the US, it is fairly well documented.
The science is not really that big a secret anymore.

That is not the assertion he was talking about I think.

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Actually it was. According to a number of sources, the US did not
give plutonium to Israel although we helped in other ways. Instead
it was the French which helped Israel build the Dimona reactor back in
the late 50s. That reactor is the source of Israel's plutonium. The
reactor's heavy water which is essential, was supplied by Norway in
1959. In 1963, when the reactor started operation, the United States
supplied more heavy water.

http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/israel/nuke.html

From your article

" Later in the 1960s, Israel was widely thought to have smuggled more
than 100 kilograms of highly enriched uranium out of a nuclear
materials plant in Pennsylvania."

The assumption is that somebody at AEC knew and allowed that to
happen. It would be pretty scary if they didn't.

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It's quite possible that it was aided by a US insider who had been
co-opted. Our original discussion was about plutonium however.

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