The us congress office of technology assessment has recorded israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities and an offensive biological warfare program. Israel is widely believed to possess weapons of mass destruction and to be one of four nuclear armed countries not recognized as a nuclear weapons state by the non proliferation treaty npt. Israeli cyberattack caused explosions at iran nuclear site and was in retaliation for tehran s attempt to hack israel s water infrastructure a fire and explosion broke out above iran s.
Iran warns israel us after fire at nuclear site amid reports bomb caused blaze tehran says no casualties or radioactive pollution in natanz incident claims israeli social media took credit for. Israel the only nuclear power in the middle east and the trump administration are convinced iran is using the guise of a civilian nuclear programme to pursue weapons capability. In 1981 israeli jets bombed an iraqi nuclear reactor at osirak.
Israel has long targeted nuclear programs in the middle east in secret open and openly secret ways. Report iran nuclear iran prepared to retaliate after possible cyber attack on nuclear site. Israel blamed for explosion at iran s natanz nuclear enrichment facility.
The international atomic energy agency iaea has once again lent itself to the political interests of the united states and israel provoking a needless conflict with iran. Israel leverages dubious nuclear archives to re enlist iaea in campaign against iran. Israel set off to join the nuclear club in the 1950s.
To prevent the destruction of the jewish state. Regardless the goal is the same. Israeli nuclear weapons guard against everything from defeat in conventional warfare to serving to deter hostile states from launching nuclear chemical and biological warfare attacks against the tiny country.
Israel has worked to disrupt iran s nuclear programme in the past including the stuxnet cyberattack in 2010 which targeted iran s nuclear centrifuges and was blamed on israel and the us. And the jericho series of intermediate to intercontinental range ballistic missiles. As submarine launched cruise missiles.
The state of israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons estimates of israel s stockpile range between 80 and 400 nuclear warheads and the country is believed to possess the ability to deliver them in several methods including by aircraft.
