Vanunu in Court Appearance
from the nuclear-secrets dept.
Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli nuclear technician who is serving an 18-year prison term for treason because he gave photos of an Israeli nuclear reactor to the Times of London in 1986, made a rare court appearance today to request that he be allowed to speak with his British lawyers, and that sealed documents from his case be revealed to the public. The part that intrigues me is the mention of the Israeli government’s policy of “nuclear ambiguity,” under which it doesn’t confirm what everybody in the world knows already: that it both possesses nuclear weapons and is crazy enough to use them.
