Monday, September 16, 2013

Report: Israel Has 80 Nuclear Weapons

View of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Dest outside Dimona (Reuters)

Israel Has 80 Nuclear Warheads, Can Make 115 To 190 More, Report Says -- L.A. Times

JERUSALEM-- Israel has 80 nuclear warheads and the potential to double that number, according to a new report by U.S. experts.

In the Global Nuclear Weapons Inventories, recently published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, proliferation experts Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris write that Israel stopped production of nuclear warheads in 2004.

But the country has enough fissile material for an additional 115 to 190 warheads, according to the report, meaning it could as much as double its arsenal.

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More News On Israel's Nuclear Weapons Stockpile

Israel Thought to Possess 80 Nuclear Weapons: Experts -- Global Security Newswire
Israel has 80 nuclear warheads, report says -- Times of Israel
Report: Israel has 80 Nuclear Warheads; Production Frozen -- Arutz Sheva
Report: Israel halted nuclear warheads production in 2004 -- YNet News
Israel alleged to have 'fissile material sufficient for 115-190 warheads' -- Israel Hayom
Israel has 80 nukes, can about triple inventory – report -- RT
Israel has 80 nuclear warheads and enough material to make atleast 190 more -- Global Dispatch
Intelligence reports claim that Israel has 80 nuclear warheads -- Middle East Monitor

WNU Editor: The report from Thh Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is here.

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