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US ‘helped Israel build hydrogen bomb’: declassified report

Saturday, 14 February 2015 8:10 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 14 February 2015 8:10 AM ]

A declassified report by the US Defense Department reveals that Washington helped Israel develop a hydrogen bomb, in violation of international law.

The 1987 report said Israel’s nuclear sites had the technology base required to design and produce nuclear weapons. It said top Israeli nuclear facilities were equivalent to laboratories that played a key role in the development of US nuclear arsenal. Washington has been criticized for covering up the report for over two and a half decades. US federal laws prohibit foreign aid to those who import nuclear enrichment equipment or technology outside international safeguards. Israel has long defied calls to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is believed to have hundreds of nuclear warheads.

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