Secret Documents: US Turned Blind Eye to Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program

Recently unearthed US government documents have shed some light on how the White House repeatedly missed an opportunity to disclose the Israeli secret nuclear weapons program.

The creation of the Israeli Dimona nuclear site has long been shrouded in secrecy, however, recently disclosed US government documents show that Washington either missed or deliberately turned a blind eye to warning signs about Jerusalem's nuclear program.

In 1955, under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's rule, Israel launched a secret program aimed at producing nuclear explosives. Three years later Shimon Peres, a senior defense official, devised the project's cunning plan .... http://sputniknews.com