Breaking news: Report says Israel planned to detonate atomic bomb in Sinai if Six Day War went wrong

2017. június 4 09:20

Breaking news: Report says Israel planned to detonate atomic bomb in Sinai if Six Day War went wrong

 

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Report says Israel planned atomic detonation in Sinai if Six Day War went wrong
One the eve of the Six Day War, with the country surrounded by enemies and unsure of its future, Israel developed a “doomsday” plan to detonate an atomic bomb in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as a warning to the Arabs, The New York Times reported Saturday.

The report is based on an interview between leading Israeli nuclear scholar Avner Cohen and retired IDF brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov, who reportedly oversaw the plan.

“It’s the last secret of the 1967 war,” Cohen told the paper. The full interview is set to be published Monday as the region marks the 50th anniversary of the war in which Israel defeated the combined Arab armies in just six days.
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