Reply #5: well, duh....part 2

[Behind the Aegis]

Secret UK-Israel N-deal revealed

August 04, 2005 19:19 IST

BBC: U.K. Sold Nuke Material to Israel

Thursday, August 04, 2005

‘UK secretly sold key component for Israeli nuclear reactor’

Thursday, August 05, 2005

Secret papers confirm UK helping Israel to develop nuclear arms

10-12-2005

How Britain helped Israel get the bomb

Last Updated: Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 17:54 GMT 18:54 UK

Then again, there is this..

Englander (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-17-06 05:53 AM
Response to Reply #1
3. It was France, & Norway (via GB) that provided the materials.
Ironically, given the situation we're in today, the JFK admin tried to keep
nukes out of the region, & wasn't keen on supplying Isreal with weapons.

'John F. Kennedy and Israel

Description: John F. Kennedy entered the White House hoping to make America and the world a better and safer place in which to live. Through diplomacy, he wanted to achieve a settlement of the East-West tensions and to bring about a peaceful resolution to such issues as the Israeli-Arab conflict. Although his provision of defensive HAWK anti-aircraft missiles, in response to Russian, French and British arms sales to the Arabs, made him the first President to supply arms to Israel, Kennedy feared both exacerbation of the arms race and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. While he remained an honest and loyal friend to Israel, he also attempted to further America's relationship with the Arab states and to encourage a settlement of the Arab refugee issue. Kennedy was an independent thinker who learned how to rely upon his own best judgment and intelligence rather than upon his father or officials like Dean Rusk or Allen Dulles. Kennedy ultimately agreed to regular consultations between Israeli and American military personnel, but he would not agree to a dual alliance nor would he allow America to become Israel's main source of military equipment. The author contends that it was this precarious and uncertain diplomatic and military situation that encouraged Israel to develop its own defense industries and to investigate the possibilities of producing its own nuclear weapons systems.

http://www.greenwood.com/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C8007

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'How Britain helped Israel get the bomb

Newsnight reporter Michael Crick tells the story of how Britain helped Israel build the bomb - without telling the Americans.

Documents uncovered by Newsnight in the British National Archives show how, in 1958, Britain agreed to sell Israel 20 tonnes of heavy water, a vital ingredient for the production of plutonium at Israel's top secret Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev desert.

Robert McNamara, President John F Kennedy's defence secretary, has told Newsnight he is "astonished" at the revelation that Britain kept this secret from America.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4743493... source

So do you really want to say...

You knew this already?1?!
Wow, what's yer source of info, I didn't know about this, the documents revealed
were top secret, this is a new claim;

I am guessing my 'source' is the same as yours...Last Updated: Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 17:54 GMT 18:54 UK...especially, since you posted it on Fri Feb-17-06 05:53 AM.


On edit: I guess YOU did know about this already. Gotta hate that search function!