WMD

Can you keep nuclear bombs without having an active reactor?
Following Larry Derfner’s post, I wondered whether Israel could close down its reactor and keep some of the nukes it is said to have, perhaps as a first step on the road to a nuclear-free Middle East. I asked Dr. Avner Cohen whether it’s possible to keep the bombs without an active reactor (according to…
By Noam Sheizaf September 10, 2012
The problem with Netanyahu’s judgment, when it comes to WMD
Why was a paragraph removed from a Haaretz op-ed concerning an attack on Iran? Dr. Avner Cohen, the unofficial historian of the Israeli nuclear program, noticed today that a paragraph that appeared in the Hebrew print edition of a Haaretz op-ed by Sefi Rachlevski revealed for the first time a few details of a little-known incident from 1998.…
By Noam Sheizaf August 7, 2012
Averting doomsday: My obsession with stopping a war on Iran
Imagine: Israel is cranked up to bomb a country that likely has chemical and biological weapons to go with its missiles. Imagine: It is planning a future of one such ‘pre-emptive’ war after another.  I’ve been preoccupied for several years with the prospect that Israel would bomb Iran, and what started it was something that people don’t talk about much, certainly not now that…
By Larry Derfner February 12, 2012
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