Negev Nuclear Research Center (Dimona)

Israel / Hadarom / Dimona /
 nuclear reactor, nuclear weapons/warheads storage, nuclear research centre
The Negev Nuclear Research Center (Hebrew: קריה למחקר גרעיני - נגב‎) 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. Israel acknowledges the existence of the site, but refuses to either confirm or deny its suspected purpose in a policy known as nuclear ambiguity.It is also reported to manufacture depleted uranium for use in armor-piercing shells.

It is generally assumed that Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, with much of the plutonium in them having been produced here.

The airspace over it is closed to all aircraft, and the area around it is heavily guarded and fenced off. During the Six-Day War, an Israeli missile shot down an Israeli Mirage III fighter that inadvertently flew over Dimona. In 1973, Israeli fighters shot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 after it flew over a forbidden area.

When the United States intelligence community discovered the purpose of the site in the early 1960s, the U.S. government demanded that Israel agree to international inspections. Israel agreed, but on the condition that U.S., rather than International Atomic Energy Agency, inspectors be used, and that Israel would receive advance notice of all inspections. The inspectors eventually informed the U.S. government that their inspections were useless, due to Israeli restrictions on what areas of the facility they could inspect. By 1969 the U.S. believed that Israel might have a nuclear weapon, and terminated inspections that year. Israel is one of only three nations thought to possess nuclear weapons never to have signed the NPT (Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty) others are India and Pakistan.

www.armagedon.org.il/dimona_english.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel
worldisraelnews.com/israels-secretive-dimona-nuclear-fa...
unitedwithisrael.org/watch-everything-we-dont-know-abou...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev_Nuclear_Research_Center
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Coordinates:   31°0'8"N   35°8'47"E

Comments

  • why israeil deny for nuclear weapon? israeil GOV is very SELFISH
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