In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at Dimona, fled to the United Kingdom and revealed to the media details of Israel's nuclear weapons program. He went on to explain the purposes of each building, also revealing a top-secret …

2021年2月25日 · With French assistance, Israel began secretly building the nuclear site in the late 1950s in empty desert near Dimona, a city some 55 miles south of Jerusalem. It hid the …

In the last months of 1960 as the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower was coming to a close, the U.S. government discovered that Israel had been building, with French assistance, a secret nuclear reactor near Dimona in the Negev Desert that could give …

2025年2月7日 · Israel’s first leader, David Ben-Gurion, initiated Israel’s nuclear project in the mid- to late- 1950s, establishing Israel’s nuclear complex at Dimona, during a period when only three countries...

2024年12月17日 · Before the discovery of the secret nuclear reactor at Dimona during November-December 1960, the Atomic Energy Commission had provided Israel with a small five-megawatt research reactor under the “Atoms for Peace Program,” with fuel provided by the AEC.

2015年4月15日 · For decades, the world has known that the massive Israeli facility near Dimona, in the Negev Desert, was the key to its secret nuclear project. Yet, for decades, the …

2020年11月10日 · Determined to keep a nuclear weapons option for Israel, Eshkol presided over the completion of the super-secret plant that would reprocess spent fuel from the Dimona reactor.

Dimona Revealed Israel started the construction work at the Dimona site sometimes in early 1958, but it took the United States intelligence community almost three long years to "discover" the site for what it was, namely, a nuclear site under construction.

Some sources claimed that the missile that targeted the top-secret military nuclear facility Dimona was a Russian SA-5 handled by Syria’s Russian S-200 missile systems.

2024年10月6日 · A Moroccan -born Jewish man who spent eight years as a nuclear technician in the Dimona secret bunker, Vanunu had grown increasingly sympathetic to Palestinian rights and opposed Israel’s...