The secret history of Israeli nuclear arsenal

This video explores the history behind the myth/fact of Israeli nuclear weapons program and its nuclear arsenal. When did it all start, how the program evolved, what weapons Israel might have and what nuclear use strategy does it rely on.

Images used in the thumbnail:
Castle Romeo, by United States Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Music by Matija Malatestinic

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[ThatBasedGuy]

US: "what's ya got there?"
Israel: "a smoothie"

[theredlord]

Popular quote from Golda Meir is: "we *don't* have nuclear weapons, but we will use them if we have to" lmao

[Activated_Complex]

There’s a line from Yes, Minister. “It doesn’t have to be official. Just so long as everyone knows it.”

[FirstLast-jfyp]

Binkov was found turned inside out in the laundry hamper. It was deemed a suicide.

[electrofan]

Germany: Sorry about War World II. Here some potentially nuclear capable submarines.
Israel: Jeez... Thanks

[aniksamiurrahman]

Next up: The secret history of Binkov's nuclear arsenal.

[EngineeringWizard]

Israeli military: "We installed this nuclear security system. Should we put the sticker on the window now to ward off burglars?"
Israeli intelligence: "Yeah, but take a sharpie and add a question mark on it."

[ahroncalifornia]

Iran: Israel do, have nukes or not?
Israel: Well Iran, that depends.
Iran: On what?
Israel: Do you feel lucky?

[marvinegreen]

I arrived in South Africa at the age of 3 and left 10 years later. My dad was the business manger at Helderberg College. A PhD named Brozio was recruited from Germany to teach but later went to work for the SA nuclear program. SA was energy embargoed and so built a nuclear power plant who's cooling towers are next to the road into Cape Town. The irony is that Dr. Brozio used to come over to our house and we would play "Risk" - a board game of geopolitical maneuver and conquest...

[azj_]

Binkov: Telling the secret history of Israel nuclear arsenal.

Mossad agency: He's known to much take him down.

[arielshligman]

Basically every one jokes about the "textile" factory in dimona

[helmsscotta]

Israel built an ammo plant under a laundry during their first war. The laundry turned out to be profitable, so it kept operating after the war.

[chicom]

Hiding nuclear weapons from international community is like trying to hide your collectibles from your wife.

[HorzaPanda]

Plausible deniability, because getting nukes violates various treaties. Plausible undeniability, because if your enemies think you're bluffing then it isn't really going to be effective. Got to get that balance right XD

[banto]

When asked by the US if Israel had developed nuclear weapons, the Israeli response was "We won't be the first to use nuclear weapons (actually I think they used the polite term "introduce" instead of use) in the middle east". The clear sub-text was, that Israel would be close (as in minutes of attack) second to "introduce" nuclear weapons into the middle east (or wherever else they are needed).

[HalfLifeExpert]

The phrase I like to use is: "It is generally understood that Israel has nuclear weapons"

[jonathantarrant]

Your info is mostly very accurate, for any of the unclassified info widely available. However the Dimona complex was upgraded by the early 2000s so it's not the 1950s relic, and it runs around 200mw now days. The artillery shells were long since retired, as the delivery system was in the 90s.

[UNPACKED]

A slight correction to this great video - Ariel Sharon wasn't the prime minister in 1991, Yitzhak Shamir was. Sharon only became PM ten years later in 2001 (during George W. Bush's presidency).

[mikedn]

A great book about this program is called “The Sampson Option”, it outlined the history of the program up until the early 90s, including Israel’s nuclear targeting of the USSR and how they used this fact to leverage weapons purchases from the US.

Fun fact: according to the book, the worker that Binkov mentioned as being a whistle blower, Mordecai Vananu, was actively discredited by and set up for a honey trap by Ghislane Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell who was both a media mogul and Mossad asset.

[pacfic]

Next stop of the Stuxnet worm: Binkov’s PC.