In June 1968, the UN General Assembly passed the " Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons " . The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other nuclear powers took the lead in signing this treaty. It has to be said that at that time, this treaty was mainly aimed at China's nuclear tests in the 1960s, but in 1992, China, which had matured nuclear technology, also announced that it had joined the treaty.
The signing site of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
However, there are still many small countries that are also trying to take the path of independent nuclear possession, and Israel is one of them. As a small Middle East country, Israel has been nuclear under the nose of the world for 50 years and has refused to investigate the International Atomic Energy Organization many times. According to internal personnel, their nuclear weapons may have more than China.
Israel's nuclear possession path
In 1947, the United Nations passed a resolution on the partition of Palestine , and divided 15,200 square kilometers of land to Israel, and Israel was thus established.
However, since the founding of Israel was a land separated from the Arabs, the relationship between Israel and many surrounding Arab countries was almost the same as that of water and fire. The contradictions between the two sides were fiercely reflected in the fields of ethnicity, religion, territory, resources, etc., and it can be regarded as one of the regions with the strongest gunpowder smell in the world.
Israeli cityscape
In such a turbulent background, Israel naturally attaches great importance to national defense security to an unprecedented level , and nuclear possession is also in Israel's plan. In 1950, Israel's first president, Haim Weizmann, said that
"Jewish If you want to not repeat the mistakes of displacement in the past thousands of years, you must have nuclear weapons."
In 1954, Israel's nuclear plan began to be implemented. They first made a request to the United States to provide light water reactor technology support in the name of building nuclear power plant , and carried out a large number of political operation activities through Jewish capital in the United States. Finally, three years later, Israel successfully established Surek and the light water reactor and obtained the technology of the light water reactor.
Light water reactor container
In 1956, the Suez crisis broke out, and this time Israel chose to stand on the British and French side, thus receiving generous rewards. France provided the latest plutonium separation technology to Israel, and dispatched experts to build an nuclear reactor for Israel, greatly accelerating the development of Israel's nuclear technology.
By the 1960s, the Cold War atmosphere of the United States and the Soviet Union worsened, and the crisis of the nuclear war was about to break out in the Cuban missile crisis , so Israel became the "nuclear ally" of the Western countries , and obtained a large amount of nuclear test data from the United States and France . However, due to its small territory, it is difficult for Israel to conduct a mature nuclear test.
Nuclear Weapon Explosion
But Israel reached a secret cooperation relationship with South Africa in 1979 and obtained permission to conduct a secret nuclear test on the east coast of South Africa. In May of that year, the United States satellite reconnaissanced South Africa Prince Edward Islands , which confirmed Israel's judgment of nuclear weapons. From then on, there was another Israel in the world with nuclear weapons.
refuses to recognize Israeli
However, it is interesting that Israel has refused to recognize the fact that itself has owned nuclear power to this day.
When major powers such as the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1968, countries with nuclear R&D capabilities such as China, India and Israel did not join the treaty. Therefore, the nuclear tests of these countries after 1970 were all considered illegal, and China was also subject to long-term economic sanctions for . But Israel, as a country that secretly tried to break out the nuclear weapons of in 1979, circumvented the international sanctions of by and the United States with the special relationship between .
nuclear explosion test
In the 1980s, International Atomic Energy Agency sent an investigation team to try to investigate the use of nuclear energy in Israel, but was blatantly rejected by Israel.
Israel believes that nuclear energy utilization is the highest secret in the country, so it is extremely guarded against any snooping outside. The agents of the Israeli intelligence organization " Mossad " interfered with the International Atomic Energy Agency personnel through various means of coercion and inducement, which ultimately ended in vain.
"Mossad" organization logo
But Israel's nuclear possession has long been an open secret for the whole world. In 1986, Modikai Vannuu , who had been a technician at the Israeli secret nuclear base, Dimona Nuclear Power Plant, for 9 years, and was published in the British " Sunday Times ".
In the article, Modikai Vannu confirmed that Israel already has the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons , and there may be more than 200 secretly stored nuclear warheads . For comparison, the outside world speculated at the time that China had only about 260 nuclear warheads.
arrested Modikai Vannu
But after revealing the situation, Modikai Vannu was treated harshly by the Israeli authorities. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason by Israel and was not released until 2004. It is worth mentioning that Modikai Vannu has not yet obtained complete personal freedom. He is prohibited from leaving Israel and is prohibited from contacting or personal contact with foreigners.
"I don't have it, and you can't have it either"
Why does Israel play this trick of "no silver here"? In fact, you will know when you see Israel's attitude towards the development of nuclear energy in neighboring Middle Eastern countries - whenever there is any movement in surrounding Middle Eastern countries to develop nuclear energy, Israel will use thunder means to to destroy nuclear reactors, nuclear scientific research bases in these countries, and even use agents to assassinate nuclear scientists in these countries.
In 1981, the "Tamuz-1" reactor in Iraqi was airstrike by 24 Israeli F-15 and F16, and the nuclear facilities secretly built for many years were completely razed to the ground by .
Israeli fighter jets in the air strike
2010~2012, four nuclear scientists of Iran died mysteriously in the short term. Iran said that this was the black hand of Israel's "Mossad" organization.
In 2021, Israel dispatched several drone groups and air strikes Iran's Karaji centrifuge production plant, which once again hit Iran's nuclear development .
Iranian factory striking
These are only part of Israel's open actions. As for how many "black hands" Israel has secretly put on the nuclear cause of neighboring countries, it is almost impossible to count. But from this we can also understand why Israel firmly denies its nuclear possession - this is to set a moral high point for Israel's actions to suppress neighboring countries: "Since I don't have , then you can't have ."
Israeli troops and soldiers
But Israel's "two-faced and three-kill" approach is ultimately contrary to the mainstream expectations of world peace. Especially in an internationally sensitive area like the Middle East, when neighboring countries cannot get a sense of security, Israel itself will inevitably find it difficult to get the true peace of .
