Class 25: Arms control and nuclear proliferation

@-8 Seymour Hersh, The Sampson Option, or Israel, America and the bomb [You have to go to UK's amazon.com to find it!], chapter 21, pp. 285-305 (the rest of the book is also a great read if you have time, and it is a good historical review of US-Israeli relations)

Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' revelations on TV in 2001.

 

cf. Bell, J. Bowyer, Israel's Nuclear Option, Middle East Journal, 26:4 (1972:Autumn)

 

Israel's nuclear program, 1957-

Background: Mordecai Vanunu (his home page for most recent arrest) 1986, 1981 hard evidence...back to 1958-60!, 1964 hiding Dimona reprocessing, 1979 Indian Ocean flash! Yet The Sampson Option 1991 almost vanished, too, but for Mirrorgate and Robt Maxwell suicide. - calling attention to Israeli nukes still a "career-stopper" in 1992 - no Americans publishing just as they do not yet today publish stories about Bush targeting of Jazeera offices in Doha in 2004.

 

Why Israel's first nuclear spy, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 1981-85? (whom AIPAC thought to be a sting, cf Seymour Hersh, p292!)

Osirak 1981 (PM Begin spilled the beans - 40 meters below Dimona not Osirak)

Soviet targeting data from KH-11 satellite

codes - 1800 docs = 500,000 pages!

PM Shamir (ex Stern Gang) Soviet relations 1983-84

 

Nuclear non-proliferation: double standards?

South Africa? Pakistan, Iran, Iraq....

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Continuing Video: BBC, Elusive Peace (beginning part 3 - Bush 2 states speech June 2002, Road Map to cover Iraq, where "Mission Accomplished" May 9, 2003...)

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11 November 2008 - Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin., Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to chenry@mail.utexas.edu