In a suspicious move amid ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, the Pentagon quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document revealing details of Israel’s nuclear program ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Mar. 3 address in Congress.
Israel National News reports,
“In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel's nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent.
“But by publishing the declassified document from 1987, the US reportedly breached the silent agreement to keep quiet on Israel's nuclear powers for the first time ever, detailing the nuclear program in great depth.
“The timing of the revelation is highly suspect, given that it came as tensions spiraled out of control between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama ahead of Netanyahu's March 3 address in Congress, in which he warned against the dangers of Iran's nuclear program and how the deal being formed on that program leaves the Islamic regime with nuclear breakout capabilities."
The 386-page Institute for Defense Analysis report penned back in 1987 provides an in-depth description of Israel’s nuclear infrastructure and capabilities in the 1970s and 1980s. The document reveals that the Israelis were developing certain hydrogen bomb capabilities.
“It should be noted that the Israelis are developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs,” the report reads. “That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on microscopic and macroscopic level. However, it is doubtful they have the codes to completely design such devices, as these involve more exotic radiation transport and are multidimensional. The Israelis do not yet have the the capability to carry out these kinds of calculations.”
Why would the Pentagon declassify a top-secret document on a topic at such a sensitive time, revealing covert information about our ally's otherwise unacknowledged program? Would this have anything to do with President Obama's disposition toward Israel's prime minister Netanyahu?
Curiously, the Pentagon kept the sections on Italy, France, West Germany, and other NATO countries classified, the text literally blocked out in the document.
