Special Report: How the UK gave Israel the bomb

[NVMojo]

interesting lesson here ...

Thursday August 4, 2005
The Guardian

Britain secretly supplied the 20 tons of heavy water to Israel nearly half a century ago which enabled it to make nuclear weapons, according to Whitehall documents which have been discovered at the Public Records Office.

Officials in the Macmillan government deliberately concealed the deal from the US, according to the files, which were discovered by BBC Newsnight and broadcast last night.

Historians and politicians have been startled by the discovery, which sheds new light on the process by which Israel was able to circumvent attempts to restrict membership of the "nuclear club" to the great powers.

Most of those involved are now dead, but Lord (Ian) Gilmour, who was active in Conservative politics during that era, said last night: "I would have been astonished and found it absolutely unbelievable." He said he did not believe Harold Macmillan or his ministers knew anything about the sale, which Britain permitted without demanding safeguards against military use.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1542077,00.html

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Dupe...

Discussed here in LBN and here in "Editorials and other Articles."

[NVMojo]

2. Excuse me! This is the first time I read it! Not everyone has time to

hang on this board daily and go backwards to read posts. Beat me.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Talk about an overreaction..sheesh.

I was just stating it had been posted twice in other places. If this was of such interest to you as to post here, perhaps who'd like to read what others posted on the same topic.

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[Caleb]

4. It was the UN

Not the US that gave the Jews back their homeland.