{"id":18950,"date":"2025-06-16T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=18950"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:54:35","slug":"how-israel-acquired-nuclear-weapons-in-defiance-of-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/06\/16\/how-israel-acquired-nuclear-weapons-in-defiance-of-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel Acquired Nuclear Weapons in Defiance of International Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-Titled \u201cHow Israel Acquired Nuclear Weapons Amid Total Secrecy and International Law Violations,\u201d the French newspaper L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 investigates how Israel built a covert nuclear arsenal while avoiding all accountability, and how successive U.S. presidents\u2014including Donald Trump\u2014refused to demand that Israel sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\" data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1379\">Instead, during Trump\u2019s first term in 2019, the U.S. withdrew from the INF Treaty with Russia, paving the way for a lawless global arms race, the paper states.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-9\" data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1435\">Israel: The Middle East&#8217;s Undeclared Nuclear Power<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\" data-start=\"1437\" data-end=\"1750\">L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 notes that Israel has never officially acknowledged its nuclear weapons, nor has it ever allowed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of its facilities. Meanwhile, Iran, a signatory of the NPT since 1970, remains under relentless international scrutiny over transparency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\" data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"1953\">The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, estimates that Israel holds around 100 nuclear warheads\u2014made possible by a French-backed program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18952\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18952 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, estimates that Israel holds around 100 nuclear warheads\u2014made possible by a French-backed program.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-1-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Dimona nuclear program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-12\" data-start=\"1955\" data-end=\"2009\">The French Connection: A Reactor and a Secret Pact<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\" data-start=\"2011\" data-end=\"2365\">France reportedly sent hundreds of technicians to Israel in the 1950s and provided a 24-megawatt reactor, which laid the foundation for the Dimona nuclear complex. Construction began in 1958. Though Charles de Gaulle attempted to halt cooperation upon returning to power, the program had already advanced enough to continue independently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\" data-start=\"2367\" data-end=\"2604\">According to ICAN\u2019s latest report, Israel spent over $1 billion last year on its nuclear forces. The organization argues that Israel\u2019s aggression toward Iran proves that \u201cnuclear deterrence does not prevent war\u2014it encourages it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-15\" data-start=\"2606\" data-end=\"2647\">Strategic Fear and Holocaust Leverage<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-16\" data-start=\"2649\" data-end=\"2848\">The Dimona nuclear facility began operations in 1963, and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion played a pivotal role, using regional insecurity and Holocaust rhetoric to pressure European leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-17\" data-start=\"2850\" data-end=\"3068\">Ben-Gurion believed Israel must prepare for the worst and rely solely on itself. Nuclear historian Avner Cohen explains that the idea of a defensive nuclear umbrella was a near-national consensus in Israel.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-18\" data-start=\"3070\" data-end=\"3117\">Shimon Peres, Iran, and the Nazi Comparison<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-19\" data-start=\"3119\" data-end=\"3473\">Ironically, Shimon Peres, once seen as a peacemaker during the 1994 Oslo Accords, was a chief architect of Israel\u2019s nuclear program. He publicly compared Iran to the Third Reich, claiming, \u201cIran is the most dangerous state because its clerics believe in the supremacy of their religion, as Hitler believed in the supremacy of the Aryan race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-20\" data-start=\"3475\" data-end=\"3597\">The article also highlights Ernst David Bergmann, the so-called \u201cfather of Israel\u2019s nuclear program,\u201d who once said:\u201cI am convinced Israel must have its own defensive research program so that we are never slaughtered like lambs again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-21\" data-start=\"3723\" data-end=\"3804\">This view prevailed despite opposition from within Israel\u2019s scientific community.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-22\" data-start=\"3806\" data-end=\"3852\">Mossad and the Silencing of Whistleblowers<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-23\" data-start=\"3854\" data-end=\"4091\">Due to the high sensitivity of Israel\u2019s nuclear file, Mossad abducted nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu in 1986 in Rome after he leaked details of the Dimona program to the media. He was sentenced in 1988 to 18 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-24\" data-start=\"4093\" data-end=\"4279\">A rare official slip occurred in December 2006, when then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, during a visit to Germany, mentioned Israel\u2019s nuclear capabilities while criticizing Iran.\u201cIran threatens to wipe Israel off the map. How can that be compared to countries like France, the U.S., Israel, or Russia having nuclear weapons?\u201d he asked, unintentionally acknowledging Israel\u2019s arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-25\" data-start=\"4489\" data-end=\"4555\">Just days earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said:\u201cIran is surrounded by nuclear powers: Pakistan to the east, Russia to the north, and Israel to the west.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18953\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18953 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/21-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"A French expos\u00e9 reveals decades of secrecy, Western complicity, and strategic manipulation behind Israel\u2019s undeclared nuclear arsenal and its exemption from global non-proliferation demands.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/21-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/21-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/21-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/21.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Dimona nuclear program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-26\" data-start=\"4668\" data-end=\"4692\">A Democratic Paradox<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-27\" data-start=\"4694\" data-end=\"4980\">L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 concludes by stressing the glaring contradiction in Israel\u2019s nuclear opacity. As a country that brands itself as the \u201conly democracy in the Middle East,\u201d it continues to evade transparency, refuse IAEA oversight, and violate the spirit of non-proliferation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-28\" data-start=\"4982\" data-end=\"5134\">Meanwhile, the international community\u2014especially the U.S.\u2014continues to ignore this nuclear exception, focusing pressure almost exclusively on Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-29\" data-start=\"5136\" data-end=\"5309\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">This double standard, the article argues, undermines global trust in nuclear law and emboldens militarization, while leaving Israel\u2019s arsenal unchecked and unchallenged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-Titled \u201cHow Israel Acquired Nuclear Weapons Amid Total Secrecy and International Law Violations,\u201d the French newspaper L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 investigates how Israel built a covert nuclear arsenal while avoiding all accountability, and how successive U.S. presidents\u2014including Donald Trump\u2014refused to demand that Israel sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Instead, during Trump\u2019s first term &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[167,6045,4286],"class_list":["post-18950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-israel","tag-israels-nuclear-weapons","tag-the-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Israel Acquired Nuclear Weapons in Defiance of International Law - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 exposes how Israel built a nuclear arsenal of over 100 warheads with French backing, .all while avoiding international scrutiny.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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