Which Middle Eastern country has nuclear weapons? What a country of its nuclear scientist imprisoned for 18 years? In which country there is no international arms inspectors?
Such issues will start on 1 night of October at 19.15 Finnish YLE Channel 1 as shown by the BBC documentary "Israel's secret weapon."
Negev desert in Israel, Dimona Textiles factory, where Mordechai Vanunu (left photo) was working as an engineer. Because he was unhappy with what is happening out there, he threatened to publish the facts actually what is happening in the factory. Thereupon, he was forced to leave, but Mordechai came to take the evidence of the true nature of the complex - completed the manufacture of plutonium nuclear weapons.
Thanks to his photographs published in the Sunday Times 1986th Article in the Israeli nuclear weapons. Before the article appearing in the Vanunu lived in exile, however, mysteriously disappeared for weeks. Israeli intelligence had discovered his location in Rome, and a merchant ship, he secretly brought to Israel.
His detention was ordered to take, Shimon Peres, the then Prime Minister and former nuclear weapon, project manager, who saw in him a threat to national security. Vanunu into the Israeli court is a fact, but it's never explained his arrival there and found the illegal kidnapping took place. Facts about the kidnapping appeared in court at the time but he showed reporters a glimpse of my left palm, where it was written: "Taken in Rome on 30 September 1986. "
Vanunu was found guilty of espionage and given a 18 years in prison.
27th March 1987, with its prisons started. A few tears shed in Israel, most Jews saw him traitor, and even death in his family, he said. But he found a new adoptive parents from Minnesota in the United States. 1997th Vanunu a successful adoptive Eoloffil Mary and Nick meet him face to face for the first time. So far, they had only communicated with by letter. Regular mail you send, however, took time to arrive but they were big holes, and Censorship of scissors.
Most of the Jews saw nuclear power as a proactive ähvardatavate neighbors. And after the Second World War Holocaust, it was a nuclear scientist involved in the program said that like the ultimate turvapoliis Eveni Uzi. Today, Israel is the world's sixth-largest nuclear arsenal (the explosive charge between 100 and 200) and sufficient to destroy all the neighboring countries.
Shimon Peres became the first drawings of the reactor the French. Dimona complex structure of the information came to the then U.S. President Kennedy, who then called for inspections. Of 1961. This happened to a end, it was shown in the Yankee simulated control room, but not the bottom of the 6 floors, which actually made of plutonium. After Kennedy's assassination pressure disappeared.
President Nixon from the U.S. and Israel tenet of the Jewish state's nuclear program could continue as long as it is not disclosed. Also today, Israel is free of other paariariike väisavatest UN weapons inspectors, who were relying on the United States and its allies in the invasion of Iraq. Arabs, the question of when Israel attacked the United States possessing weapons of mass destruction, it is not surprising - and Washington is not yet a double standard?
Typically, reactors are closed 40 years old, a high risk of an accident, but the dome shines on Dimona. Ancient Secrets of the reactor, however, begin to leak. 1997th heard a big crimp level of radiation in the desert. The Minister declared the site safe and journalists could not argue to the contrary, because they were not allowed to bring mõõtmisaparatuuri. Environment Minister, said bluntly that the burying of nuclear waste would be the publication of his dismissal, because it is secret information.
A year ago, Israel was shown on television as a documentary, in which five former workers told Dimona plant accidents and claimed damages for breach of their health. It was pointed out a hundred names of employees with cancer who have no hope of damages, but because their employers do not recognize them anymore.
Reporter Olenka Frenkiel worker but still can not hear anything. The Secret Service had been threatening him and warned Vanunu destiny. Even doctors and lawyers refused to negotiate. Frenkielil was only to note that when it comes to the totalitarian regimes of the Soviet Union or Iraq, could understand the silence of frightened people. But in Israel, where democracy should be?
Mary Eoloffil remains only to note that Vanunu would be North Korea or Russia for the publication of such information received the Nobel Peace Prize, but in Israel you will be called a prisoner in solitary confinement without windows.
Photos: The picture on top of Mordechai Vanunu (left) this year, his defense attorney at the hearing.
Israel's nuclear-related sites on the lower map (in English).
Article first appeared in October 2003 Midweek newspaper
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