It was a U.S. scientist, Edward Teller, who had close contacts with Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion, and advised Israeli leaders NEVER to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
PM Ben-Gurion believed Israel's survival depended upon its possession of an atomic arsenal and was very impressed with the fact that the Manhattan Project had been heavily staffed by Jewish nuclear physicists.
It was Teller who warned CIA official Carl Duckett in the 1960s that Israel was developing and on the verge of possessing a nuclear weapon.
It was a U.S. scientist, Edward Teller, who had close contacts with Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion, and advised Israeli leaders NEVER to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
PM Ben-Gurion believed Israel's survival depended upon its possession of an atomic arsenal and was very impressed with the fact that the Manhattan Project had been heavily staffed by Jewish nuclear physicists.
It was Teller who warned CIA official Carl Duckett in the 1960s that Israel was developing and on the verge of possessing a nuclear weapon.