A selection of Articles
on the WWW about Mordechai Vanunu and Israel's nuclear weapons policy
Mordechai Vanunu revealing details about his kidnapping to journalists.
Vanunu
I Am Your Spy by Mordechai Vanunu - "I am the clerk, the technician, the mechanic, the driver. They said: Do this, do that, don't look left or right, don't read the text. Don't look at the whole machine..."
About Vanunu from the Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu - Some information, newsletters and books about Mordechai Vanunu,including recent letters from Vanunu himself. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF MORDECHAI VANUNU as redress for violations of his human rights. On the LEGALITY OF VANUNU'S ABDUCTION AND IMPRISONMENT via "The Campaign to Free Vanunu and For a Nuclear Free MiddleEast" Newsletter.
The International Conference on "Democracy, Human Rights and Mordechai Vanunu" Tel Aviv, October 13-14, 1996. Prepared by Mordechai Briemberg. "I thank you all. I am happy for revealing what I revealed." That was the resilient message Mordechai Vanunu sent to the international conference held in Tel Aviv..."
Vanunu: Israel's Embarrassment by Samuel H. Day, Jr. -- MORDECHAI VANNU IS IN PRISON FOR REVEALLING ISREAL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS SECRETS. Edited and reprinted from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November, 1992. PEACETIMES NOVEMBER 1992
Vanunu? by Witold Jedlicki - "An inquiry into the character, personality, and moral qualities of Mordecai Vanunu has been going on for quite some time now, and is not likely to expire soon. His case is indeed extraordinary, abounding in sensations and conflating issues as disparate as nuclear arms, terrorism, national security, government secrecy, cencorship, freedom of speech, human rights, due process of law, loyalty and treason, Jewishness and Israel's international relations..." from News From Within, October 1986
Before The Blast by Akiva Orr - Mordechai Vanunu languishes 10 years in solitary confinement in Ashkelon in Israel for having divulged to the London Sunday Times details of Israel's nuclear weapons program. Had Israel's nuclear policy resulted from a Knesset decision, Vanunu would not have done what he did. The fact that the Knesset never debated nuclear policy motivated Vanunu to reveal what should never have been a secret.
Israel's nuclear weapons policy
Israel's Nuclear Program by Carolyn M. Thomas - "Although Israel is the only state in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons at this time, the government continues to deny that Israel has a nuclear weapons program. In fact, were it not for the efforts of Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician at Dimona (the main nuclear plant in Israel), the world would most likely still not know the truth about Israel's capabilities..." from The International Relations Journal
Israel's Nuclear Development & Strategy: Future Ramifications for the Middle East Regional Balance by Laura Drake - "Israel's oft-repeated pronouncement that it will "not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East" is the euphemistic embodiment of Israel's entrenched yet still unconfessed nuclear status.
Israel's Nuclear Weapons - A Case Study by Elizabeth Stevens - "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds; waiting the hour that ripens to their doom." from The Nonproliferation Journal.
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