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Israel carried out 1979 nuclear test - report
From:ireland.com
Friday, 19th May, 2006

Israel carried out a nuclear explosion in a joint experiment with the Apartheid South African state in 1979, according to a newspaper report.

The Israeli Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported that a newly-disclosed US document contains details of the test which, it says, was carried out on an offshore platform in the northern Atlantic on September 22, 1979.

According to the document, which was released following a request by the Georgetown University in Washington, a US satellite detected the explosion which it says was caused by a nuclear test.

The document was prepared in December 1979 and details a high level of co-operation between Israel and the apartheid state.

Non-proliferation analysts estimate Israel has from 100 to 200 atomic weapons, but the country has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and does not confirm or deny having nuclear weapons.

Israeli's nuclear capability was confirmed in 1986 when Mr Mordechai Vanunu, an employee at its nuclear facility of Dimona, disclosed what was going on there.

He was subsequently kidnapped in Rome by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, brought to Israeli and put on trial.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B04ADDFC9-39E6-4CF4-B27B-6B7475889575%7D&language=EN

Israel, South Africa Nuclear Test Tried Out

Tel Aviv, May 19 (Prensa Latina) US declassified documents revealed a nuclear test carried out by Israel and Apartheid South Africa in north Antarctica in 1979, confirmed the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot on Friday.

The information denied the statements of a commission created by the US former President Jimmy Carter, concluding that the explosions had unknown origin.

On September 1979, a US spy satellite detected a mysterious nuclear explosion on the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the report, both nations maintained a very close relation regarding military issues, including the development of investigations on the nuclear field.

A decade later, the CIA released a report confirming that the South African government possessed nuclear armaments.

The secretive documents were disclosed due to a request by the Center of Investigation on National Security of Georgetown University in Washington.

Currently Israel counts on an atomic reserve estimated at more than 200 nuclear heads, an armament ruled out by the executive but many times denounced by the Arab media.

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