Israel Has 80 Nuclear Warheads, Can Make 115 To 190 More, Report Says

[Purveyor]

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.

Previous estimates have been higher but the new figures agree with the 2013 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute yearbook on armament and international security. The yearbook estimated 50 of Israel's nuclear warheads were for medium-range ballistic missiles and 30 were for for bombs carried by aircraft, according to a report in the Guardian.

Although widely assumed a nuclear power, Israel has never acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons or capabilities and continues to maintain its decades-old "strategic ambiguity" policy on the matter, neither confirming nor denying foreign reports on the issue.

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[KoKo]

1. Israel would have better World Recognition if it admits it has NUKES & CW's

IMHO. They do what they do and what they want....but if they REALLY WANT PEACE in ME...they need to admit what they have so that it's a level playing field.

[Purveyor]

2. Israel would have better world recognition if they would cease their apartheid type laws against the

Palestinian peoples.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Yup. n/t

[KoKo]

5. There's That...and the World would think better of them for doing this..

At "this time" in their History.

They could do better ...they could gain back some support if they would work towards PEACE and not CONSTANT WAR trying to Defend .."The Defenseless" Positioning by their Officials!

[hunter]

4. It's been "common" knowledge for some time I think.

Apartheid South Africa had a few nukes too but they quietly got rid of them as their government was collapsing.

Black people with nukes was their very worst nightmare.

Much the same as many people feel about Iran.

[KoKo]

7. I don't get why Iran shouldn't have Nukes. If No. Korea and Israel have Nukes

and we allow No. Korea to have them..and know Israel has them...why shouldn't Iran have them for "balance of Power" in the ME.

If Israel gave up it's nukes ...then there would be a Reason for Iran to give up whatever it has.

But Noooooooooooo! It's ALL ABOUT IRAN!

Yet when North Korea sets off missiles and threatens us...we tend to back down..saying we are doing "Diplomacy" and the situation dies down. But when BiBi goes to the US House an they BOW DOWN themselves in supplication before him...we all think this is GOOD STUFF. It was the WHOLE CONGRESS who bowed down before BiBi...over and over and did that when they weren't jumping up and down clapping enthralled at the words coming out of his mouth! It's on C-Span Archives...in case you missed that whole Show of Force! Or, "Solidarity" is the way it was put out in MSM here at Home.

[hunter]

8. We want Iran's oil and natural gas reserves to be measured in petro-dollars.

It's that simple.

[Mnemosyne]

6. Shhh! No one is supposed to know, ask Mordechi Vanunu. nt

[Sand Wind]

9. Since its clear, for what I'm reading here, that Israel can count only on itself, it's better for

Them to have a huge nuclear arsenal.