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Israel has dozens of nuclear warheads,’ Swedish research institute claims
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute names US, UK, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea as nine countries to possess nuclear capabilities. Report alleges Israel is in possession of between 80 and 90 nuclear warheads.
“There are 13,865 nuclear warheads worldwide, and they are owned by nine countries,” a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden, said Sunday.
SIPRI named the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea as countries to possess nuclear capabilities, saying that combined, they have as many as 13,865 nuclear heads, of which 3,750 are operational and an estimated 2,000 are being kept in a state of alert. Overall, however, the number of warheads has declined over the past year, the report found.
SIPRI noted that despite maintaining a long-term policy of ambiguity with regard to its nuclear arsenal, Israel is believed to possess between 80 and 90 nuclear warheads.
While there is a general decline in the number of nuclear warheads, countries that possess them continue to increase their stockpiles, with the US and Russia the only ones so far who have reduced their stockpiles, by 265 and 350 warheads, respectively.
“Britain, China, Pakistan, North Korea and perhaps Israel have increased the number of their warheads. For India and France, there was no change in the number of nuclear weapons,” the report said.
The United States, for example, has 1,750 nuclear missiles and 4,435 nuclear weapons in stockpiles. Russia has 1,600 nuclear missiles and 4,900 additional nuclear weapons in warehouses, according to the report.
A policy of ambiguity is not unique to Israel. The report pointed to the lack of transparency among many countries with regard to their nuclear stockpiles. So far, the US, the UK, and France have disclosed information about their nuclear arsenals. Data from other countries is based mainly on missile tests and the supply of military-grade fissile material, which is used to release high amounts of energy and generate large explosions.
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A former deputy at the International Atomic Energy Agency urged the organization to demand the right to visit, inspect and possibly destroy Iran’s secret nuclear archive.
Olli Heinonen, said Tehran’s nuclear scientists could today produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb within six to eight months, though it was unclear how long it would take them to actually build such a device.
Unlike Iran, however, Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and, as such, technically does not have to abide by nuclear anti-proliferation conventions. But as diplomatic pressure intensifies on Iran, new attention has been focused on Israel’s nuclear capabilities and the challenges its program poses for peace in the Middle East.
Israel began its nuclear program in the mid-1950s and it is the sixth-largest nuclear power. It is also believed Israel possesses at least 100 bunker-busting bombs—so-called mini-nukes—which are laser-guided and capable of penetrating underground targets like nuclear labs or storage facilities for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Inspections of Israeli nuclear sites are fruitless because of restrictions placed on the inspectors. Much of what the outside world knows about Israel’s nuclear capabilities came from Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician who worked at Dimona nuclear complex, located in the Negev desert. Israel gets the benefit of being perceived as a nuclear power while at the same time not enduring potential punishment (by the international community).
While Israel has never publicly acknowledged the existence of its nuclear program, there is some speculation that the Israeli government considered a nuclear test during the 1967 Six-Day War. There is also some speculation, that the 1979 Vela incident—in which an American satellite recorded a double flash of light over the Indian Ocean—was the result of a joint South African-Israeli nuclear test. In 2007, Israel conducted an airstrike against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in accordance with the Begin Doctrine. The Stuxnet computer virus—a joint American-Israeli project—was responsible for significant delays in Iran’s nuclear program during the early years of President Barack Obama’s administration.
The Israeli government has never acknowledged its nuclear capabilities and it continues to evade international inspection.
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