Newly declassified documents reveal contacts between Jerusalem & Washington in the late 1960s, when some in the US gov’t believed the nuclear option would not deter Arab leaders but would trigger a nuclear bomb race.
By Amir Oren
The Obama administration this week declassified papers, after 45 years of top-secret status, documenting contacts between Jerusalem and Washington over American agreement to the existence of an Israeli nuclear option. The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), which is in charge of approving declassification, had for decades consistently refused to declassify these secrets of the Israeli nuclear program.
Golda Meir and Richard Nixon at the White House, September 25, 1969.
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