IP: Lifting the veil on how Israelis got the A-bomb

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
>
> Lifting the veil on how Israelis got the A-bomb
>
> Press opens up on ill-kept secret
>
> By Dan Ephron, Globe Correspondent, 11/11/2001
>
> JERUSALEM - In the twilight of their lives, a few people who took
> part in one of the most ambitious and secretive ventures in Israel's
> history are suddenly feeling the urge to talk about it.
>
> Some, like Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, seek credit for the role
> they played in the project, and hope it will secure their place in
> history.
>
> For others it's a more modest yearning, an almost obsessive need to
> unload secrets they have carried around for nearly 50 years.
>
> The result has been a steady erosion of the taboo surrounding
> discussion of Israel's nuclear weapons program, a project so furtive
> and so sensitive that it has never figured in the discourse of this
> country, an otherwise feisty democracy.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/315/nation/Lifting_the_veil_on_how_Israelis_got_the_A_bomb+.shtml 


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