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Weapons & Arms Trade
Nuclear Weapons
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| Mordechai Vanunu |
The existance of Israel's secret nuclear weapons program was first confirmed in September 1996, when Israeli whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu provided Sunday Times journalist Peter Hounam with photographs and technical information about the Dimona facility. Vanunu had served in the Israeli army and then went to work in the Dimona nuclear "research center" in the Negev Desert near his home at Beersheba. The facility harbored an underground plutonium separation plant operated in strictest secrecy. Following his contact with the Sunday Times, before the article was published, Vanunu was lured to Rome by an Israeli agent and kidnapped by the Israeli Mossad. Vanunu served a sentence of 18 years imprisonment, 12 years of which were in solitary confinement. Freed by the Israeli government, he left behind concrete walls, but was thrown into a bureaucratic "prison" that denied him basic freedoms. On 11 November 2003 he was rearrested.
Introduction
How Israel's nuclear fiction was exposed, Peter Hounam, Index on Censorship (21 April 2004)
BBC Transcript of "Israel's Secret Weapon", BBC World Service (29 June 2003)
Israel's silent nuclear attack revealed, Issa Samandar (19 May 2005)
The Case of Mordechai Vanunu
Vanunu will appear in court for talking to press, IFJ (24 January 2006)
Vanunu speaks about his November 18th arrest edited by Zachary Wales (26 November 2005)
WaPSR Delegation Diary 3: Our Dinner with Mordechai Vanunu, Dr. Bill Dienst (26 November 2005)
Federation of Journalists condemns intimidation of whistleblower, IFJ (18 March 2005)
Glasgow University students propose Vanunu for Rector, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad (2 December 2004)
Journalists accuse Israel of "disgraceful abuse" over arrest of Vanunu, IFJ (12 November 2004)
ACRI demands return of documents and letters confiscated from Vanunu, ACRI (22 September 2004)
The Vanunu Epilogue, Am Johal (13 September 2004)
Why Israel is still afraid of Mordechai Vanunu, Jonathan Cook (28 June 2004)
Israeli Civil Rights Group Petitions to Cancel Restrictions on Vanunu, ACRI (6 June 2004)
Federation of Journalists urges Israel to respect rights of journalists, IFJ (28 May 2004)
Vanunu journalist, Peter Hounam arrested, RSF (27 May 2004)
Silencing a whistleblower and those who hear him, James Thackera, Index on Censorship (27 May 2004)
Israel, a country that respects the rule of law?, Jeff Handmaker and Adri Nieuwhof (30 April 2004)
Amnesty: No restrictions with Vanunu's release, Amnesty International (19 April 2004)
For a nuclear-free Middle East, Karen Asfour (20 January 2003)
The Israel's Nuclear Arms and the Bush Administration, George S. Hishmeh, CPAP (22 January 2004)
Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
Dispersing Demonstrations -- Or Chemical Warfare?, James Brooks (12 July 2004)
Fingers on all the Buttons: Mordechai Vanunu and Israel's Undeclared Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons, Index on Censorship (March 2003)
Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons:History, Deterrence, and Arms Control (PDF) Avner Cohen (2001)
Related Websites
The US Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu
Free Mordechai Vanunu (UK)
Peace Heros: Israeli Anti-Nuclear Whistleblower and Prisoner of Conscience
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