Does Israel Really Have a Thermonuclear Weapon?
And did the Pentagon really just declassify a document admitting knowledge of this?
BY MARCH 31, 2015
We all know Israel has the bomb, but does it have the hydrogenbomb?
The idea that Israel’s nuclear arsenal might comprise thermonuclear weapons has long been a subject of discussion. It popped back in the popular conscience a few weeks ago when Grant Smith — who runs an organization called the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy that has some viewsabout Israel that I find pretty awful — released a redacted version of a 1987 report published by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Smith had sued to get the document, then posted it online claiming it was “confirmation of Israel’s advanced nuclear weapons” — with “advanced” meaning thermonuclear weapons.
