, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given the green light for Israel to set up a special office to develop a nanotechnology arsenal, the leading Hebrew daily reported Nov. 17.
Yediot Aharonot said that Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres had been told to choose 15 top thinkers to focus on developing futuristic weaponry. The 15 would be selected from within the security establishment, the world of high technology and academia.
If their projects succeed, they will provide Israel with a response to the various threats from Palestinian rockets and suicide bombers, to long-range missiles and nonconvential weapons, the daily said.
Peres has recently hinted in public lectures at a small number of secret developments, Yediot added, such as
