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leveymg

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22. I'm surprised you didn't know about the Israeli theft of plutonium from a US Navy nuclear plant,
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 11:11 PM
Mar 2013

NUMEC, in Pennsylvania during the 1960s. Here are the first seven items that appear on GOOGLE on the topic of "Israeli theft of US nuclear materials":

Nuclear weapons and Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel
Estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal vary between 75 and 400 ..... from the U.S. Navy nuclear fuel plant operated by the Nuclear Materials and ... Corporation, where sloppy material accounting would have masked the theft.
Development history - Nuclear testing - Revelations - Stockpile

IRMEP Documents on Israeli theft of nuclear materials - Sic Semper ...
turcopolier.typepad.com/.../irmep-documents-on-israeli-theft-...
Aug 11, 2012 – IRMEP Documents on Israeli theft of nuclear materials ... "How Israel Received Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material from a US Company by ...

Nixon papers suggest israel stole nuclear material from US in 1965
wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4817
Nov 29, 2007 – Nixon papers suggest israel stole nuclear material from US in 1965 ... deceived us,” Mr. Kissinger said, “and may even have stolen from us.” ...
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations
original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/.../declassified-gao-report/

May 10, 2010 – The GAO revealed that the DOE's nuclear materials safeguards, which ... 1968, was later revealed as the top Israeli spy targeting U.S. nuclear, ...
Israel diverted US uranium using a front in Pennsylvania to establish ...
mondoweiss.net/.../secrecy-pact-over-israels-nukes-reached-by...
May 7, 2012 – And all the while the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation, ... and frankly you allege by outright theft of U. S. uranium materials.

NUMEC- Zalman Shapiro - Uranium diversion to Israel, FBI, CIA files
www.irmep.org/ila/numec/
The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation received start-up capital ..... to Israel's brazen theft of American nuclear material before finally deciding to bury ...

Nuclear Diversion in the US? 13 Years of Contradiction and ... - IRmep
irmep.org/ila/nukes/NUMEC/default.asp
GAO Investigates Israeli theft of weapons grade uranium from the US ... security at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Pennsylvania.

Israel & Iran: Double standards on nuclear weapons
www.david-morrison.org.uk/.../iran-israel-double-standard.ht...
However, it is generally believed that nuclear material was stolen by Israeli agents from the US, the UK and France in the 1960s and transported to Israel by ...

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Damned if they do, damned if they don't Tempest Mar 2013 #1
What are the conditions placed on them? JDPriestly Mar 2013 #2
The U.S. has been moving the goal posts for years now on this issue. Tempest Mar 2013 #6
How about you explain what "conditions" that have been made that you cstanleytech Mar 2013 #10
But you mentioned "conditions." What are they? JDPriestly Mar 2013 #13
I often see the red herring used of "but Israel has nukes". cstanleytech Mar 2013 #15
well, there must be a reason why they have them reorg Mar 2013 #40
the conditions placed on Iran exceed their actual contractual obligations reorg Mar 2013 #38
Israel's nuclear program and weapons are irrelevant. Behind the Aegis Mar 2013 #4
From your perspective, not Iran's. n/t Tempest Mar 2013 #7
They can use that red herring all they want, doesn't relieve them of their duties. Behind the Aegis Mar 2013 #8
When the US applies sanctions on Israel to end its nuclear program, this will be the right thing leveymg Mar 2013 #14
Red herring, not a double standard. Behind the Aegis Mar 2013 #18
Israel's nuclear bombs are outside the NPT, and the initial batch were made of plutonium stolen from leveymg Mar 2013 #20
Well you got one thing correct, FINALLY. Behind the Aegis Mar 2013 #21
I'm surprised you didn't know about the Israeli theft of plutonium from a US Navy nuclear plant, leveymg Mar 2013 #22
Oh...that explains it. Behind the Aegis Mar 2013 #23
And pretty obviously untrue. If it is US plutonium, I am sure we gave it to them. stevenleser Mar 2013 #24
Yup, especially given the nature of those sites. Behind the Aegis Mar 2013 #25
If you prefer the term, diversion of U.S. nuclear materials to Israel, that's still illegal under leveymg Mar 2013 #26
How can Israel be in violation leftynyc Mar 2013 #27
The US is in violation of the NPT for diversion; Israel in violation of US law for receipt leveymg Mar 2013 #28
You just asserted it was a theft. Now because it suits your purposes, you are saying it was transfer stevenleser Mar 2013 #29
If the transfer was authorized, it was diversion. If unauthorized, theft. Take your pick. leveymg Mar 2013 #32
Again, that analogy doesnt work. Israel never signed the NPT. If you want to assert hypocrisy your stevenleser Mar 2013 #34
Yawn leftynyc Mar 2013 #31
No, not up in arms. I don't expect that Israel will be prosecuted, but I don't think sanctions on leveymg Mar 2013 #35
Sorry, leftynyc Mar 2013 #36
A past President stated this. Also, read Hersh's, The Samson Option leveymg Mar 2013 #39
Here's more from that '07 NYT article about Israel's nuclear blackmail of the US leveymg Mar 2013 #41
Kissinger? That's who you want to hang leftynyc Mar 2013 #42
None of that makes Kissinger's statements about the diversion untrue, nor does it change the fact leveymg Mar 2013 #43
You are accusing Israel of leftynyc Mar 2013 #44
No, Israel cannot be in violation of a treaty it never signed and to which it is not a party. nt stevenleser Mar 2013 #30
Steven, read more carefully. I said if not a theft, the transfer would be an NPT violation leveymg Mar 2013 #37
What do many think nineteen50 Mar 2013 #3
Of course they aren't. Cough cough. Myrina Mar 2013 #5
Oh, no, that's code for "We will liberate them soon" Blandocyte Mar 2013 #9
Odd, If that was the code then we should have invaded N. Korea by now. nt cstanleytech Mar 2013 #11
Well, if Iraq had actually possessed WMDs... I wouldn't have been against the war... Comrade_McKenzie Mar 2013 #12
You never seem to be a big fan of that freedom and democracy stuff cpwm17 Mar 2013 #16
"Nukes" are a pretext ronnie624 Mar 2013 #33
Are we sure this is LBNs? ripcord Mar 2013 #17
Video here Ash_F Mar 2013 #19
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