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Israel denying its history of nuclear deal with apartheid South Africa

Israel defiant amid nuke controversy, Tribune uk,“……..Israel has struggled to dismiss documentary evidence that it tried to sell nuclear weapons to the white South African régime in the 1970s by Bernard PurcellFriday, May 28th, 2010 Israel this week defended itself against what appears to be the first, long-awaited documentary proof of the widely-held belief that it offered nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime of South Africa in 1975.The indignant denial by President Shimon Peres, through his spokeswoman, came within days of the re-imprisonment of nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu on charges of breaching state security.
The evidence, uncovered by American academic Sasha Polakow-Suransky using official US archives for a forthcoming book, was published by Guardian reporter Chris McGreal who has been writing on the South Africa-Israel connection for several years……………Meanwhile, 55-year old technician and whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel’s nuclear programme at Dimona to the Sunday Times in1986 and served 18 years in jail as a consequence, for talking to reporters. In December, Mr Vanunu was sentenced to three months community service or three months in prison, for violating the terms of his 2004 release from prison. Israel is believed to have around 200 nuclear warheads and has refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or to allow international surveillance of Dimona in the southern Negev desert.

Israel defiant amid nuke controversy « Tribune – Labour leadership gossip, news, features and comment from Britain’s left-wing magazine

May 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons