A group of Democrats in the United States Congress have called on the State Department to break the US government’s longstanding silence on Israel’s nuclear capabilities.
In a letter sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Democrats pointed to the US-Israel war on Iran as the reason more clarity is urgently needed.
While Israel is believed to have possessed nuclear weapons since the 1960s, it maintains “a policy of nuclear opacity, never officially confirming the existence of its nuclear weapons program and arsenal”, according to the Washington, DC-based Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Isreal started “smuggling” uranium out of the USA in the 60s with several US agencies knowing the uranium went missing and where it went. The USA is well aware of the existence of isreals nuclear weapons.
Israel also partnered with France on development, and then with South Africa to obtain more Uranium in exchange for sharing technology with SA.
Perhaps an oversimplification, but SA is only country to disarm themselves of nukes because the apartheid government was so racist they would rather disarm then allow nuclear weapons to be controlled by a black people as apartheid ended.
Anyway, always weird to me that Israel gets an open pass to ignore the nuclear non proliferation treaty since LBJ was president. I think Kennedy was the last administration to push back on Israel significantly in this area.