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Israel claims that USA supports its silence on its nuclear weapons

Israel to keep nuclear ‘ambiguity’, Google hosted news, (AFP) – 12 May 2010, JERUSALEM — Israel will keep up its longstanding policy of deliberate ambiguity over its nuclear programme, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday, adding that US support for the position remains unchanged.“This is a good policy and there is no reason to change it. There is complete agreement with the United States on this question,” Barak told army radio.He also said “there is no risk” that inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would get authorisation to inspect Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor…..
Media reports have said the United States agreed in 1969 that as long as Israel did not test a nuclear weapon or publicly confirm that it had one, Washington would not press it on the issue.

Foreign military experts believe Israel has an arsenal of several hundred nuclear weapons.

Like nuclear-armed countries India, Pakistan and North Korea, Israel has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in order to avoid inspections by the Vienna-based IAEA.

But an Israeli scientist on Monday said Israel should end its decades-long silence over its reported nuclear weapons capability and open its nuclear reactor to inspection…………Egypt had tabled a motion on Israel’s nuclear weapons status for a June meeting of the IAEA.

AFP: Israel to keep nuclear ‘ambiguity’

May 12, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons