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Comment on Israel’s nuclear weapons submarines: Germany builds two more Dolphins by Don’t Bomb Iran » Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran - Times

Sun, 30 May 2010 05:25:24 +0000

[...] it’s nuclear ambiguity policy. The Times reported a similar deployment last year; and as this timeline shows Israeli officials have been giving off-the-record-briefings about their “strategic [...]

Comment on UK officials sold Israel plutonium and heavy water for bomb in 1960s, without telling ministers by Don’t Bomb Iran » Israel’s nuclear weapons submarines: Germany builds two more Dolphins

Sun, 30 May 2010 05:16:48 +0000

[...] Isreal’s weapons program, as is well documented elsewhere. (British officials gave Israel plutonium and heavy water for its bomb without informing ministers). Germany built and gave Israel submarines which Israel [...]

Comment on Israel’s nuclear weapons submarines: Germany builds two more Dolphins by Don’t Bomb Iran » Israeli Navy in Indian Ocean for possible attack on Iran

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:16:52 +0000

[...] earlier reports that an Israeli nuclear-weapons Dolphin submarine crossed the Suez canal for a potential attack on Iran, The Times now reports that two [...]

Comment on US declassifies Nixon decision to keep quiet about Israel’s bomb by Don’t Bomb Iran » Obama Reafirms He Will Keep Israel’s Nukes ‘Secret’

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:11:40 +0000

[...] For declassified top secret 1969 documents about the original US decision to keep Israel’s nukes secret, see this post [...]

Comment on Nuclear weapons states “swindle” NPT – and new nukes are incompatible with treaty: Kofi Annan by Don’t Bomb Iran » US using British atomic weapons factory for its nuclear programme

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:50:53 +0000

[...] The US has been using Britain’s atomic weapons factory to carry out research into its own nuclear warhead programme, according to evidence seen by the Guardian. This has been suspected for some years. The US weapons industry has long been prevented by Congress from researching a “replacement warhead”, and the UK denies it has such a programme. But the UK government has recently spent tens of billions mysteriously upgrading Britain’s factory at Aldermaston, and at Christmas secretly sold it’s stake to US companies; thus creating a Guantanamo for nukes, an offshore legal black hole where US companies can design the next generation of weapons without Congressional oversight and without sharing the secrets with foreign companies or parliaments. US weapons labs last week unhappily revealed that Obama may end civilian control of bomb development after decades and move such work to the Pantagon, a move seen to be an attempt to weaken the lab’s influence on policy. Article 1 of the Non-Proliferation treaty prohibits ‘transfer’ of nuclear weapons between countries, but the US and UK have a secret agreement on nuclear technology sharing - including recent warhead re-entry upgrades that gave British bombs the ability to destroy very hard targets in a first strike. Koffi Annan describes such modernisation as a swindle incompatible with the NPT [...]

Comment on Trident warhead upgraded to destroy missile silos by Don’t Bomb Iran » US using British atomic weapons factory for its nuclear programme

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:49:50 +0000

[...] secret agreement on nuclear technology sharing - including recent warhead re-entry upgrades that gave British bombs the ability to destroy very hard targets in a first strike. Koffi Annan describes such modernisation as a swindle incompatible with the [...]

Comment on UK new nuclear High Surety Warhead under development ? by Don’t Bomb Iran » US using British atomic weapons factory for its nuclear programme

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:53:21 +0000

[...] has long been prevented by Congress from researching a “replacement warhead”, and the UK denies it has such a programme. But the UK government has recently spent tens of billions mysteriously [...]

Comment on Pentagon must test nukes again or build new ones, threatens Gates by Don’t Bomb Iran » Obama to end civilian control of nuclear weapons labs?

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:04:22 +0000

[...] not been a great sucess. Los Alamos is not happy, although the Pentagon chief must be keen – he wants to build a new generation of weapons or test old [...]

Comment on Pentagon must test nukes again or build new ones, threatens Gates by Don’t Bomb Iran » Each US family spends about $800 on nukes each year

Don’t Bomb Iran » Each US family spends about $800 on nukes each year — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:52:22 +0000

[...] The US spends much more on its nuclear bombs than it does on foreign aid and diplomacy combined, says a Carnegie report. $52 billion a year is apparently a conservative estimate, so each American spends about $200 on weapons of mass destruction annually. And remember, the Pentagon wants to throw away all their old ones and build a new fleet. [...]

Comment on US pressures Olmert against Iran, Gaza attacks – Time by Don’t Bomb Iran » White House again says it rejected Israeli attack on Iran

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:28:11 +0000

[...] to a major article in the Bush-friendly NY Times. A few weeks ago, the same White House said it rejected an attack on Gaza in Time magazine, but Bush has now stunned allies in the UN Security Council (and even Condi Rice) [...]