Israel plans to maintain Nuke ambiguity with US help

Israeli foreign ministry says Tel Aviv plans to maintain its policy of ambiguity over its nuclear program with the help of its veto-wielding ally, the United States.

"This policy of ambiguity constitutes one of the pillars of Israeli national security and the Americans consider it very important," AFP quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon as saying.

"There is no reason for the Americans to change their approach or for Israel to change its position," he said.

For the past four decades, the Israeli regime has refused to admit possessing nuclear weapons while it does not deny that it has nuclear arms, either.

In May 2009, Israel rejected a US call to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would require Tel Aviv to declare and relinquish its nuclear arsenal.

This is while a secret US-Israel accord signed by President Richard Nixon some 40 years ago instructs the White House into helping Tel Aviv hide information about its nuclear program.

In 1986, Israeli nuclear scientist Mordecai Vanunu disclosed in The Sunday Times of London photos and the first insider account of Israel's primary nuclear facility in Dimona.

The revelation cost Vanunu 18 years in jail over treason charges and a travel ban that bars him from leaving Israel.

Israel is believed to be the Middle East region's sole wielder of nuclear weapons, as foreign military experts estimate Tel Aviv has an arsenal of at least 200 nuclear bombs.

Ayalon's remakes come ahead of next week's nuclear security summit in Washington which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planned to attend.

Source: PressTV.
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