--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Isreal has nuclear weapons, they developed on their own.
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Israel was given both nuclear and nuclear-bomb technology by France
("In 1956 the French agreed to secretly build the Dimona nuclear
reactor in Israel and soon after agreed to construct a reprocessing
plant for the extraction of plutonium at the site."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction ).
The reason that France supplied Israel with nuclear weapons was
because France wanted a powerful military ally in the area (see also
http://tinyurl.com/s8sfa ), and they got one: when Britain and France
wanted to seize control of the Suez Canal in 1956, Israel agreed to
join in this war and attacked Egypt in Oct 1956 (Eisenhower's strong
diplomatic pressure ended this attempt to seize control of Suez -- see
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/suez.html ).
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