Nuclear weapons are Israel's 'worst-kept secret,' says Israeli historian

October 21, 2013 19:36

Talks between six world powers and Iran conducted in Geneva this week reflect international concern about the danger of nuclear weapons proliferation in the volatile Middle East.

Rarely discussed amid the concern over Iran's nuclear intentions is the unacknowledged but widely accepted reality that there has been a nuclear weapons state in the Middle East for decades.Israel has long hewed to a policy of nuclear opacity '" known as amimut in Hebrew '" neither confirming nor denying the existence of a substantial nuclear arsenal.

While the U.S. and its allies largely refrain from talking publicly about Israel's program, Iran often cites it as an instance of what it decries as a Western double standard.

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