Source: BBC
(video of this report available via the above link)
Great Britian, gotcha!
Did you honestly think you could sell weapons-grade plutonium to Israel for them to use in their weapons programs, and no one would notice? Well, we know, and the cat's out of the bag...so to speak.
The UK supplied Israel with quantities of plutonium while Harold Wilson was prime minister, BBC Newsnight can reveal.
The sale was made despite a warning from British intelligence that it might "make a material contribution to an Israeli weapons programme".
Under Wilson, Britain also sold Israel tons of chemicals used to make boosted atom bombs 20 times more powerful than Hiroshima or even Hydrogen Bombs.
In Harold Macmillan's time the UK supplied uranium 235 and the heavy water which allowed Israel to start up its nuclear weapons production plant at Dimona--heavy water which British intelligence estimated would allow Israel to make "six nuclear weapons a year".
I guess war and the nuclear arms race make good bedfellows.
Tags: [weapns-grade plutonium], [Israel], [nuclear arms race], [United Kingdom]
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