Lifting the veil on how Israelis got the A-bomb

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Sun Nov 11 13:06:04 PST 2001


Lifting the veil on how Israelis got the A-bomb

Press opens up on ill-kept secret

By Dan Ephron, Globe Correspondent, 11/11/2001

JERUSALEM - In the twilight of their lives, a few people who took part in one of the most ambitious and secretive ventures in Israel's history are suddenly feeling the urge to talk about it.

Some, like Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, seek credit for the role they played in the project, and hope it will secure their place in history.

For others it's a more modest yearning, an almost obsessive need to unload secrets they have carried around for nearly 50 years.

The result has been a steady erosion of the taboo surrounding discussion of Israel's nuclear weapons program, a project so furtive and so sensitive that it has never figured in the discourse of this country, an otherwise feisty democracy.

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