Israel is widely believed to possess 90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads and to have produced enough plutonium for 100-200 weapons
A picture taken from Israel’s southern city of Sderot shows smoke billowing during a Israeli strike on Gaza on Monday Israel is thought to have a sizeable arsenal of air and submarine-launched nuclear warheads – while Iran has long denied attempts to develop nuclear weapons,amid a failed nuclear deal with the US and longstanding tensions with the monitoring body, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Others have pleaded for level heads. “She is a complete idiot,” says Uri Bar-Joseph, professor emeritus in political science at Haifa University in Israel. “Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. The suggestion is idiotic.” “We know from internal cabinet documents that Golda Meir immediately said ‘no’ to that in 1973,” says Professor Bar-Joseph. Although some historians have claimed the mere fact that nuclear weapons were mentioned by Dayan prompted then-president Richard Nixon to order an airlift to Israel days later on 12 October.“If we had Golda Meir in power today, Biden would not have been less concerned,” says Bar-Joseph. “But Biden does not consider Netanyahu to be a responsible player.
According to Professor Bar-Joseph, in addition to assuring that Israel doesn’t lash out in desperation, America’s heavy military presence will also give it a significant degree of leverage over an Israeli government – or at least an Israeli prime minister – it doesn’t trust.and to have produced enough plutonium for 100-200 weapons, but there have been questions over how ready the Israeli military is to use them in a conflict.
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