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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Israel's nuclear program

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
The UN flag flies at half staff outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on November 13, 2023, in memory of those killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
November 14, 2023, 12:16 pm
At UN nuclear conference, China, Iran, Oman decry Israeli minister’s comment on Gaza
Beijing says Amichai Eliyahu’s suggestion Israel could nuke Strip was ‘extremely irresponsible and disturbing,’ as nations gather for fourth confab aimed at nuclear-free Mideast
By Edith M. Lederer
Israeli F-35 fighter jets escort an American B-52 bomber through Israeli airspace on November 10, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 6, 2023, 4:55 am
Giving unheard-of assent to Saudi nuclearization, Israel girds for Cold War with Iran
After Tehran proved how little the international community will do to stop nuclear proliferation, Israel knows Riyadh may eventually have the bomb. Maybe that’s the point
By Haviv Rettig Gur
View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, August 13, 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 26, 2023, 1:17 am
Several top nuclear scientists said to weigh resigning to protest judicial overhaul
Some of the country’s leading experts are discussing quitting the high level Atomic Energy Commission, TV report says
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, November 5, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 4, 2023, 9:18 pm
Worst-kept secret? In tweet, ex-PM Barak seems to confirm Israel has nuclear weapons
Says Western officials fear judicial overhaul will turn country into ‘messianic dictatorship that possesses nuclear weapons,’ thirsting for confrontation with Islam at Temple Mount
By ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the Security Council on October 19, 2021. (Courtesy)
September 23, 2022, 8:13 pm
Israeli envoy to UN blasts Abbas’s ‘bizarre, lie-laden speech’
Gilad Erdan says Palestinian leader ‘time after time uses UN stage to incite against Israel’; Meretz leader urges PM to meet with Abbas
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds up a New York Times front page showing children killed in the May 2021 Israel-Hamas conflict as he addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 23, 2022 (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)
September 23, 2022, 5:15 pm
While nodding at Lapid’s backing of 2 states, Abbas says Israel ‘destroying’ chances
In UN speech, PA leader says ‘apartheid’ regime no longer a partner, lashes US for ‘pretending to uphold human rights,’ urges countries to accept Palestine as full member state
By Jacob Magid
Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
September 22, 2022, 8:44 pm
At UN, Lapid calls for two-state solution, says world choosing ‘easy option’ on Iran
Addressing General Assembly, prime minister says agreement with Palestinians the ‘right thing’ for Israel’s security; blasts silence at world body when Israel is slandered
By Lazar Berman
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein listens as he and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken face reporters as they meet at the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Pool via AP)
December 23, 2021, 7:43 pm
Iraq calls for direct nuclear talks between Iran and US
Visiting Tehran, Iraqi FM Fuad Hussein says there’s a ‘problem’ with the negotiating mechanism in Vienna, where US and Iranian officials only communicate through intermediaries
By AFP
A portrait of Hans Globke, the under-secretary of state and chief of staff of the West German Chancellery, from 1953 to 1963. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)
March 15, 2021, 11:02 pm
Report: Official at heart of Nazis’ racial laws worked to help Israel go nuclear
Hans Globke, who wrote notorious guidebook on anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, later helped prepare secret $5.5b loan for development of Dimona reactor, Times of London reveals
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
A nuclear explosion on April 18, 1953, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series, at the US's Nevada Test Site. (US National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office/Wikipedia/public domain)
May 11, 2019, 10:05 am
US envoy: Agreement at 2020 nuclear treaty review will be ‘incredibly difficult’
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty members — every nation but India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel — gather every five years to gauge how pact is working
By Edith M. Lederer
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
View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, August 13, 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 15, 2019, 4:59 pm
Dimona nuclear reactor official arrested for corruption
Gag order partially lifted to reveal detention of senior employee at Israeli’s top-secret nuclear facility
By ToI Staff
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