(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) New York Nov. 21 (Petra)--Israel has 115 nuclear weapons as well as a full range of 400-915 kilograms of plutonium according to the U.S Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).
Israel developed its first nuclear weapon shortly before the 1967 Six Day War making it the sixth nation to develop nuclear weapons.
"To this day Israel maintains an ambiguous posture about its nuclear weapons despite the declassification of formerly secret U.S. government documents which assert the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons. In addition the revelations of Mordechai Vanunu in 1986 revealed a larger nuclear weapons program than commonly assessed at that time" the ISIS said.
According to the institute the heart of Israel's nuclear weapons production complex is the Dimona site near the city of Beersheva. This site contains a number of secret nuclear facilities for the production of plutonium including a heavy water reactor a fuel fabrication plant and a plutonium separation plant all provided by France in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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