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Israel tested nuke in 1979

2006-05-21

ISRAEL and South Africa carried out a nuclear test on an offshore platform in the northern Antarctic in 1979, according to a newly disclosed US document, Yediot Aharonot newspaper said.

The document, released at the request of the security studies centre at Georgetown University in Washington, says a mystery explosion detected on September 22, 1979 by a US satellite was a nuclear test.

Prepared for the White House in December 1979, it said Israel and South Africa, then under apartheid rule, were cooperating on military issues, including nuclear research.

US intelligence services reported in 1990 that South Africa was producing nuclear weapons, while Israel is estimated to possess 200 nuclear warheads, although it has never confirmed or denied holding such weapons. South Africa later dismantled its nuclear weapons program under UN supervision.
Some confirmation of long-held suspicions. However, at the time it was suggested that Argentina was involved with the other two in the test. South Africa's peaceful use continued, and along with Japan, they are known to produce small reactors of great utility, both today and in the future.

Posted by:Anonymoose

#18 No.
The blueprints were shredded and all bomb componants destroyed by 1994.

Posted by: john 2006-05-21 23:25

#17 Is this article a nice way of saying [armed]Radical African groups based within increasingly unstable South Africa have nukie techs???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-21 21:10

#16 on an offshore platform in the northern Antarctic

Ummm ... except for the South Pole, couldn't just about everywhere in the Antarctic be considered the "northern" part? ;-)
Posted by: ExtremeModerate

DAMMIT! You took my line!

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2006-05-21 18:17

#15 Since the Zionist entity felt it was necessary to test their 2 stage device as did India and the ISI

Thankfully the Paks don't have a thermonuclear weapon. Yet.
They can't design their own weapons and rely on Chinese designs. The Chinese have not yet proliferated this class of weapon.

The pictures and details revealed by the traitor Vananu suggests that the Israeli hydrogen device is a Sloika, not a true staged weapon.

There are questions regarding the yield of the Indian thermonuclear device. Iyengar, who headed the team that developed the first Indian fission device tested in 1974, wonders if the secondary burn failed.

Posted by: john 2006-05-21 14:29

#14 on an offshore platform in the northern Antarctic

Ummm ... except for the South Pole, couldn't just about everywhere in the Antarctic be considered the "northern" part? ;-)

Posted by: ExtremeModerate 2006-05-21 13:43

#13 another 30 occulated and waiting for the hidden mahdi.

BAWAAAAAAAAA

Posted by: the Twelfth Imami 2006-05-21 13:21

#12 Since the Zionist entity felt it was necessary to test their 2 stage device as did India and the ISI, does this imply that Iran will feel the same way? Or will they trust their math?

Posted by: 6 2006-05-21 11:36

#11 Sounds like Vela worked per specs.

Posted by: 6 2006-05-21 11:34

#10 So were the reports of the Vela sensor malfunction false?

Posted by: john 2006-05-21 11:00

#9 But the UN can't do anything with nations like iran or israel. Israel will show more backbone than say the united states has and tell the UN too fuck off

Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-05-21 10:27

#8 Oh, I didn't say the UN had AUTHORITY to intervene. But they will do everything they can, with sanctions and pressure to do nothing about Iran, as a result of an admission that Israel has nuclear weapons.

Posted by: lotp 2006-05-21 08:21

#7 Israel is not part of the NPT or Part of any UN Nuclear program. The UN can sod off accordingly.

Iran is a signatory and has signed even more additional protocols. Iran can't opt out and is in conflict with it's treaty obligations.

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-05-21 06:57

#6 Why would the UN get involved? Israel isn't a signatory to any nuke treaty that I know of.

Posted by: 6 2006-05-21 06:46

#5 isn't it maybe time for show and tell?

It's a desperate move ... or one hostile to Israel. Official acknowledgement that Israel has nukes gets the UN involved in a big way.

Posted by: lotp 2006-05-21 06:30

#4 Yep.

But if the Persians get close, isn't it maybe time for show and tell? Perhaps the Zionist entity ought to come clean. Let the world know that yep, 3rd nuclear power. 25 in the hillz, 16 in the subs, 60 for the F-15Is and another 30 occulated and waiting for the hidden mahdi.

Posted by: 6 2006-05-21 06:19

#3 Another old meme lightly floating in its trial balloon, gently bobbing along the lefty jetstream.

...released at the request of the security studies centre at Georgetown University in Washington...

Which only coincidentally has recently accepted $20 million from Israel's resolute enemy, the Saudi royal family. A mere coincidence, mind you.

Posted by: Seafarious 2006-05-21 01:37

#2 This is an old story.

Posted by: imoyaro 2006-05-21 01:06

#1 "From correspondents in Jerusalem"
Yes, Iran, this is a message for you.

Posted by: Darrell 2006-05-21 00:16

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