UK’s nuclear aid to Israel

December 14th, 2005 at 13:13 Björn Hallberg

The British Foreign Office has been stripped of all credibility in the matter. And even more baffling still than the lies, Britain apparently did not demand any sort of safeguards over the sale.

Guardian - Fresh and apparently incriminating documents have come to light under the Freedom of Information Act on the way Britain helped Israel obtain its nuclear bomb 40 years ago, by selling it 20 tonnes of heavy water.

The Whitehall files not only confirm that Britain was a knowing party to the deal, but also contain subsequent intelligence assessments confirming that the sale of heavy water, which is used to produce plutonium, was crucial to Israel’s nuclear weapons programme.

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