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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Israeli nuclear weapons

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 4, 2024, 1:46 am
Opposition party head appears to urge nuclear action to stop Iran’s atomic program
Ex-defense minister Liberman calls on government to use ‘all tools’ at its disposal to counter the threat posed by Tehran, stressing this can’t be done by ‘conventional means’
By ToI Staff
Satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows construction at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona, Israel, on February 22, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)
June 18, 2024, 6:41 pm
Israel modernizing nuclear capabilities, upgrading production facilities – report
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute warns atomic weapons playing a larger role in international relations than at any time since the Cold War
By ToI Staff
Rockets are launched by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, in Gaza, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/ Hatem Moussa)
December 4, 2023, 11:49 pm
Report: Hamas rocket hit IDF base thought to house nuclear-capable missiles on Oct 7
Through analyzing satellite imagery, NY Times finds rocket impact on Sdot Micha Airbase caused fire to spread near facilities where sensitive weapons are believed to be stored
By ToI Staff
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives at an event at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 20, 2023, 8:57 pm
Minister says Israel may be open to Saudi uranium enrichment under normalization deal
Close Netanyahu confidant Ron Dermer says Jerusalem would ‘have to look at what ultimately is agreed upon’; Lapid argues allowing such a move would endanger Israel’s security
By Canaan Lidor
Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (AP/ Mark Schiefelbein/ File)
June 12, 2023, 2:08 am
China leading way as nuclear powers expand arsenals, report warns
Era of slimming nuclear stockpiles is ending, Swedish think tank says, with China, Russia, India and Pakistan all deploying more bombs; Israel said to keep inventory unchanged
By AFP
US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, August 27, 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP)
September 1, 2021, 11:02 pm
Biden reportedly reaffirms pact not to push Israel on its alleged nukes
Agreement backed by every president since Nixon binds US to not pressure Jerusalem on joining non-proliferation treaty in exchange for Israeli promise not to use bombs
By ToI Staff
A Pakistani-made Shaheen-III missile, that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, is carried on a trailer during a military parade in connection with Pakistan National Day celebrations, in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 25, 2021. (Anjum Naveed/AP)
June 14, 2021, 9:51 am
Nuclear arms decline stalls as nations modernize arsenals, warns think tank
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says standstill could impact non-proliferation treaties as non-nuclear states question their own commitments
By Johannes LEDEL
Satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows construction at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona, Israel, on February 22, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)
February 25, 2021, 11:22 am
A soccer field-sized dig, stories deep: Israel expands Dimona nuclear facility
Reactor appears to be getting most extensive new construction work in decades, satellite photos show; reason unclear
By Jon Gambrell
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony renaming the nuclear reactor in Dimona to the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center after the late Israeli statesman, on August 29, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 5, 2020, 2:10 pm
In momentary slip, Netanyahu breaks Israel’s nuclear ambiguity
Hailing gas pipeline deal, PM trips up in calling Jewish state a ‘nuclear power,’ but quickly clarifies
By ToI Staff
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
September 22, 2019, 4:06 pm
Did the Carter administration cover up a 1979 Israeli nuclear test?
Noting Israeli accusations against Iran, Foreign Policy magazine slams ‘humiliating role’ US president allegedly played in hiding purported Israeli test from the world
By ToI Staff
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrives to deliver a speech to graduates of a military academy in Istanbul, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)
September 5, 2019, 4:07 am
Erdogan says Turkey should have nuclear weapons like Israel
Turkish leader says fact his country is barred from having atomic bombs is unacceptable, says Israel is untouchable due to nuclear deterrent
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
June 10, 2019, 7:51 pm
Netanyahu: Iran’s Zarif lying, Tehran is the one threatening destruction
PM says Islamic Republic ‘accelerating its nuclear program,’ warns Israel won’t allow it to develop atomic weapons, hours after Iran’s FM castigated Israel
By ToI Staff and Agencies
US President John F. Kennedy and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion get together for a talk at the Waldorf Towers in 1961 (Walter Kelleher/NY Daily News via Getty Images, JTA)
May 7, 2019, 4:03 pm
Kennedy warned Eshkol US support was ‘jeopardized’ without nuclear inspections
US president was furious with the Jewish state over its atomic program, fearing the Soviet Union could use it as leverage, 1963 telegram recently posted online shows
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative. A plutonium core from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States in 1946. (US government/Wikimedia)
May 2, 2019, 8:01 pm
Israel had plutonium core ready to turn into nuke in ’67 war, US journal reveals
Former Israeli atomic official Elie Geisler describes guarding the device, which he says was hidden in a former British police station in central Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
President Shimon Peres (center) and outgoing Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin (right) at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem, February 5, 2013. (screenshot/Channel 2)
August 30, 2018, 3:27 pm
Rivlin was reportedly not invited to renaming of Dimona nuclear facility
In apparent snub, president not asked to attend ceremony in honor of his predecessor Shimon Peres; PMO says the event was only for ex-president’s family and staff
By ToI Staff
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