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Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear
weapons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons
Chris McGreal in Washington The Guardian, Monday 24 May 2010
Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear
warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary
evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.
The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two
countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked
for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now
its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also
signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two
countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this
agreement" was to remain secret.
The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in
research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries,
provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of
"ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.