British Secret File: “Israel” Possessed Nukes for More than Three Decades

A newly released British document confirms that "Israel" has possessed nuclear weapons for more than three decades.

Secret files released by Britain's National Archives said on Wednesday that British officials feared Tel Aviv would use its nuclear weapons in case of another war with Arab countries in the region.

"Israel", considered as the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, has never confirmed or denied that it has produced nuclear warheads. It has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and also adamantly rejected international inspection of its nuclear facilities.

Former US President Jimmy Carter acknowledged for the first time in May 2008 that Tel Aviv has 150 nuclear warheads in its arsenals.

In 1986, "Israeli" nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, who was a former worker at the Demona nuclear reactor in the Negev desert, leaked the news that "Israel" had between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons.

In May 2010, the UK's Guardian newspaper said secret South African documents reveal that in 1975, "Israel" offered to sell nuclear warheads to the then-apartheid regime in South Africa.

According to documents obtained by the newspaper, a secret meeting between the then-"Israeli" war minister, Shimon Peres, and his South African counterpart, P.W. Botha, ended with an offer for the sale of warheads "in three sizes."