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Concerned That Israel Might Be Trying to Attain Nuclear Capability, the U.S., in the Mid-1960s, Insisted on Regular Visits to Dimona. The Visiting Experts Came Away Reassured of Israel’s Intentions, but Not Everyone in the U.S. Government Was Convinced.
Jan. 17, 2021
In a recent op-ed piece in this newspaper, we revealed that Henry Kissinger, then a professor of government at Harvard University, at the conclusion of a private visit in Israel in January 1965, shared with U.S. diplomats in Tel Aviv his conviction “that Israel is already embarked on a nuclear weapons construction program.”
While the record of the discussion does not tell us what impact that observation had on Kissinger’s audience, much less how he had reached that conclusion, as contemporary historians, we know that the statement was in sharp contrast with the U.S. government’s uncertain state of knowledge of the Israeli nuclear program. While suspicions abounded, during this period the U.S. government never had definitive evidence, let alone conclusive proof, that Israel was seeking a nuclear military capability.