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Subject: Re: Nuclear testing
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Date: 13 Feb 90 22:57:49 GMT
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In answer to Dave Jacoby (Tue, 13 Feb 90 10:19:20 CST):
>I don't know, but I can't imagine either Israel or South Africa
>testing nukes on their own land.  Of course, they might have untested
>nukes...
>dave
The test had been made in the Indian Ocean, far off the South-African
coasts. Its typical "double flash" had been detected by the US
satellite Vela. There have been several articles about that in the
US scientific review "Science".
The existence of the Israeli bombs is very well known (especially in
France, because we gave it to Israel; see "Les deux bombes", by Pierre
Pean, Fayard, Paris, 1982). Israel had its first bomb in 1966.
Two or three years ago, Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli technician of
the Dimona nuclear center, confirmed it to English newspapers (Sunday
Times I think; I have the whole story elsewhere). He has then been
kidnapped in Roma by the Mossad, condemned to something like 18 years
jail. Several personalities, including Nobel prizes, pleaded for him,
with no success. People generally thought that Israel had only several
dozens bombs; according to Vanunu, it is far more than 100.
Jean-Pierre Pharabod