Dimona: Israel's "Secret" Nuclear Option

Unpacking Israeli History

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Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Have you heard about Israel's secret nuclear weapons in Dimona? Yeah, we haven't either. In this episode, Noam digs deep into how Israel's not-so-secret nuclear program came to be, and asks, does the nuclear program make Israel safer? ~~~~ Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Sommer, and Jon and Rachie Teller. ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Teaching about this topic? Check out our relevant educator resources here: https://unpacked.education/unpacking-operation-solomon-30-years-later/ ~~~~ Sources https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/066004008 https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/bosb/2010/bosb_66_4/066004008/20170817/images/large/10.2968_066004008-img2.jpeg https://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/history/timeline/different/nuclear_deterrence.html https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/The-Khrushchev-era-1953-64 https://books.google.com/books?id=si1oUnk5N3QC&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-israel-war-of-independence https://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/18-1%20Seidman.pdf https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israel-studies-an-anthology-israel-s-economy: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cohen-israel.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Suez-Canal https://books.google.com/books?id=jGtVsBne7PgC https://www.jstor.org/stable/30245572?seq=1 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/france https://fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/ https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/israeli-nuclear-program jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/nuclear-test-ban-treaty https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/israel/documents/reveal/index.html https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-a-standoff-with-the-u-s-almost-blew-up-israel-s-nuclear-program-1.7193419?v=1623033435057 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=5983539-National-Security-Archive-Doc-04-Director-of https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10801564#:~:text=Eventually%2C%20a%20U.N.%2Dbrokered%20ceasefire,heavily%20populated%20Palestinian%20West%20Bank. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/world/middleeast/29nixon.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7/newsid_3014000/3014623.stm https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/international/middleeast/israeli-who-revealed-nuclear-secrets-is-freed.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/the-point-of-no-return/308186/ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/select-quotations-of-david-ben-gurion ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Noam Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history, the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating, and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history.
0:14.0	Unpacking Israeli history is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Summer
0:19.0	and John and Rachel Teller.
0:21.0	Before we start I want to tell you about one of our other podcasts from Unpacked.
0:26.2	It's called This Week Unpacked.
0:28.3	And each week, my colleague, Sarah and Avi,
0:31.0	dive into an important piece of news from the Jewish and Israeli world and will
0:35.2	ask the fundamental question, why does this matter to me and you who are listening?
0:41.4	Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
0:44.0	Okay, Yala, let's do this.
0:46.0	I know my zingbabok.
0:50.0	All the time that you've been able to to be able to be here in Israel. We the people of Israel people of Israel
0:57.0	we are Israel.
0:58.0	We the people of Israel are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.
1:07.0	There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs in Israel of the Turkish people.
1:15.0	I think they're home.
1:17.0	Dumm, dumm, diddle dum dum dum. There was a...
1:28.0	If you're an American you might be familiar with Bert the Turtle. the animated reptile that taught 1950s American
1:35.0	school children duck and cover, the method they should use to protect themselves
1:39.8	in the event of a nuclear attack. Or, you're like me and we're busy playing on your
1:45.4	TI83 figuring out how to spell hello upside down with numbers and maybe some
1:50.6	other choice words instead of listening to Dr Chase in AP US history and maybe
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