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The white dome in the Negev desert bears his name. However, already 67 years ago, when he began to buy the projects and parts to carry out those plans from the French, until the end, without the assurance that he had enough funds to pay the middlemen, Shimon Peres was convinced that the initiative should cover the operations at the nuclear center in Dimona.
He explains this in his autobiography published in 2017, a year after his death, quoting Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: "The reputation of having power is power itself."
The doctrine of ambiguity on atomic force established by the former president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (after signing the Oslo accords with Yasser Arafat together with Yitzhak Rabin) remained in force. With a few slips anyway – one committed by Benjamin Netanyahu – it is the biggest leak in the country's history.
Mordechai Vanunu, employed at the institute for eight years, passed information on Israel's nuclear program to the British newspaper "Sunday Times" and was jailed on charges of high treason after a Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) team took him that in Rome in 1987. Even now, outside prison, he is subject to severe restrictions.
A couple of years after the clandestine mission entrusted to Peres by David Ben-Gurion, the country's founding father, American CIA analysts become suspicious: that facility in the desert hides more than spikes and antennae sticking out of the sand.
President Dwight Eisenhower asks Ogden Reid, the ambassador in Tel Aviv, to investigate, and during a helicopter flight, the diplomat is convinced by his Israeli escort that there is a fabric factory down there.
In the middle of the Cold War, it was John F. Kennedy who held Shimon Peres to account.
In the minutes kept by the Israelis in the national archive - and declassified over time - that "accidental" meeting (Peres is only deputy foreign minister) in the corridors of the White House is described: the president explains to him that the United States monitors, paying close attention to “any atomic development in the region, because it could represent a great danger. We are watching you too. What can you say?".
The answer becomes the formula that every Israeli minister has used since then: "I can assure you that we will not introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East, and we certainly will not be the first."/Corriere della Sera
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