I am just curious. Can you prove that Israel has nuclear weapons? Or is it just assumed that since Israel is surrounded by hostile or potentially hostile Arab nations and hasn't signed the NPT it must have nuclear weapons?
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Negev Nuclear Research Center
is an Israeli nuclear installation located in the Negev desert, about thirteen kilometers to the south-east of the city of Dimona. The purpose of Dimona is widely assumed to be the manufacturing of nuclear weapons. It is also reported to manufacture depleted uranium for armor-piercing shells. Israel acknowledges the existence of the site, but refuses to either confirm or deny its suspected purpose in a policy known as nuclear ambiguity. Information about the facility remains highly classified.
* However the Negev NRC has been the center point for the past 30 years in regards to Israels nuclear program and despite the fact that Israel neither denied or agreed to the question if they have nuclear weapons its widely believed that they have between 50 and 200 operational warheads and a number of stored parts that could be assembled to bring additional warheads operational.
And its the birthplace of their nuclear program which has been pointed out by South African official documents.
So do they have or did have a program is proven beyond the doubt.
Do they have the bomb? I say yes and i can not prove it.
However i will give you a clear motivation why i think that they do, and also if i think that it has been proven.
As i said personally do not have the evidence that Israel does have nuclear weapons, however some time ago there was a documentary from the Dutch program NOVA which is world famous for its shocking and accurate programs and it was about the fear in Israel over Iran's possible nuclear weapons program.
And during that docu several key figures of the Israeli government and intellectual high placed people did have their say about Israel and Iran.
Later that show a air-force major was interviewed who participated during the hits on Syria and Iraq. (Forgot his name) the question was asked if Israel does have nuclear weapons, and he replied in full that Israel does have nuclear weapons.
Now regardless if this airforce major did speak the truth or not fact remains that out of the 11 key figures that where interviewed all of them replied to that question with a full YES.
Also there have been loads of stories out there and conspiracy theories out there, however history books state that after the Six-Day War (June 1967) it did become clear that Israel needed " other" means to secure its future and to make sure that Israel can avoid to be defeated and effectively being wiped out, and according to many on line sources this would have been the start of a program which involved South Africa and Israel starting a nuclear program.
History sources indicate that Israel did have their " bombs" tested during the South African tests.(Or together with them) so they always could deny to ever have carried out a test themselfs.
This has been pointed out by official documents released by Wikileaks and later when this info did came out South Africa did admit and released some info.
I did some digging and i found some parts of it at the guardian
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Next to this it has been covered by all the major news agencies world wide.
Now if you put aside the question if Israel does have nuclear bombs, we can certain about the fact that they do have the tech, the infrastructure and everything else to have a successful program.
Having that said, back to your original question: Can i prove that Israel has N-Bombs/ Warheads answer: NO
However if i turn the question around: Do i believe that they have nuclear weapons and do i think it has been proven beyond the reasonable doubt?
Then i say YES YES YES in full.
Main reason for this is that Israel does not admit to have them, but everyone knows they have.
Next to that if you take a look at their military and the military assets then you will see that for example: Jericho intercontinental ballistic missiles, Dolphin-class submarine,
F-15I and F-16I Sufa fighter aircraft are all perfectly capable of delivering a or multi nuclear weapons.
Specially the Jericho ICBM and the Dolphin Class sub would be perfect to deliver such weapon.
And one other very important fact is that in 1986 a technical guy named: Mordechai Vanunu did actually sort of revealed that Israel has nuclear weapons.
He was one of the key technicians at the Negev Nuclear Research Center.
And last but least since 1960 there have been enough reports and direct/indirect evidence from key figures and political/military sources.
So for me its a proven fact.