What do newly declassified documents about weapons grade uranium and dual-use technology diversions from the US reveal about the role of espionage in building Israel's secret arsenal? Did Israel's proposed nuclear weapons sales to apartheid South Africa signal they are still for sale if the partner and price are right? Do FBI and CIA cover-ups of investigations into Israeli nuclear espionage signal official US government approval or political acquiescence? Did cooperating with Israel's policy of "strategic ambiguity" ever make sense for the United States? Is the era of 'nuclear opacity" now coming to an end? Are Israel's nuclear weapons of strategic benefit to the US? The following panelists tackled these questions.
Sasha Polakow-Suransky is editor of Foreign Affairs magazine at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the 2010 book "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa."
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago and author of the book "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" and coauthor of "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy"
Grant F. Smith is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) and author of the books "Spy Trade", "America's Defense Line" and "Foreign Agents."
Moderated by Middle East analyst Jeffrey Blankfort, host of the Northern California public radio station KZYX international affairs program, "Takes on the World".
High-definition video of the July 7 IRmep conference at the Spy Museum "Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future" is now available online from the Internet Archive (IA):
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00:01:00 Jeffrey Blankfort discusses US government refusals to acknowledge Israel's nuclear arsenal.
00:08:01 Why the Israeli, Apartheid South Africa, and ADL spied on US activists.
00:18:43 Grant F. Smith highlights the significance of the declassification and May 6, 2010 release of the GAO report "Nuclear Diversion in the US? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion."
00:23:09 Who established Israel's US nuclear diversion and funding network?
00:32:00 Is there any evidence the US officially collaborated in arming Israel with nuclear weapons technology?
00:37:15 Why aren't any high level Israeli or American arms smugglers ever prosecuted in the US?
00:48:52 Sasha Polakow-Suransky reveals South African yellow-cake uranium transfers to Israel's military.
00:56:31 New revelations about NUMEC diversions to Israel that were released after his book was published.
01:09:35 When will Israeli citizens be allowed to openly discuss the implications of their nuclear weapons?
01:14:26 John J. Mearsheimer reviews why states acquire nuclear weapons.
01:15:05 Debunks the argument that Iran would project power over the Gulf with nuclear weapons.
01:28:00 "Strategic ambiguity" doesn't matter since Israel isn't held accountable in the US.
01:31:49 Why Israel's nuclear weapons undermine US interests.
01:38:25 Q&A with US military, government agency, foreign and domestic press, diplomats, NGOs and students.
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