WHY AND HOW ISRAEL HAS ATTAINED NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES
#Israel had possessed an operational
#NuclearPower weapons capability by 1967, with the mass production of nuclear warheads occurring immediately after the Six-Day War. Experts estimated the stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 600. Israel began its nuclear program in the mid-1950s. One estimate, by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), puts its arsenal at around 500 nuclear warheads, which would make Israel the sixth-largest nuclear power. These warheads can be launched by air (F-16s and F-15Es), by ground (intermediate-range ballistic missiles like the Jericho II), or by sea (U.S.-made Harpoon missiles based on diesel-powered submarines or ships). Experts say Israeli missiles can reach Libya, Iran, or Russia. From 1955 to 1963
#David #Ben-
#Gurion for the second time became the Prime Minister of Israel. Anthony Eden was the British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957 followed by Harold McMillan until 1963. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the President of the USA from 1953 until 1961. On the 10 March 1960 David Ben-Gurion visited President Eisenhower at the White House and on the 17 March 1960, David Ben-Gurion visited the UK Prime Minister Harold McMillan. From both the USA and the UK David Ben-Gurion secured for Israel not only the nulla osta to develop nuclear capacity to protect Israel but obtained military, technical, and financial aid to do so. How did he do so? He simply persuaded both the USA and UK that he would disclose to the world what the Allies knew about the Holocaust from 1942 onwards and were apathetic to the situation. That would constitute a direct nexus between the quantum of Jews brutally murdered and the lethargy of the Allies who refused to even bomb the railway tracks leading to the concentration camps. Ben-Gurion told both the USA and UK that legally the Allies were jointly to blame for what happened by simply doing nothing. Today
#Israel has the military capacity to defend itself solely thanks to David Ben-Gurion but millions died between 1942 and 1945 on the non-action of the Allies for reasons that to this day remain unexplained and covered in shame.
