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Israel’s Reactor in Full Swing – With Norwegian Heavy Water
Aftenposten July 6, 1989, p. 5 Israel’s Dimona reactor is working fine. Every year, its Norwegian heavy water makes about 32 kilograms of plutonium, which the C.I.A. says is going…
Norway’s Heavy Water Scandals
Aftenposten (Oslo) September 14, 1988 This autumn, Norway faces three heavy water scandals. Israel is running the Dimona reactor–which the CIA says is making plutonium for atomic bombs–by using Norwegian heavy…
A Heavy Water Whitewash
Arbeiderbladet (Oslo) April 20, 1988 Seventeen months ago, the world learned of Norway’s nuclear deal with Israel. The deal was simple: Israel got 20 tons of heavy water and Norway…
New Nuclear Follies?
The New York Times November 25, 1987, p. A27 For nearly 30 years, countries have sold nuclear materials around the world with the requirements that the importing nations promise to…
Heavy Water Cheaters
Foreign Policy Winter 1987-1988, p. 100-119 Civilian nuclear exports are founded on two assumptions: No country will export a crucial item without requiring a pledge of peaceful use or use…
How Many Norwegian A-Bombs Do You Have?
Arbeiderbladet (Oslo) October 24, 1987 At the end of last month, Israel finally rejected Norway’s request for international inspection of the heavy water Norway sent to Israel in 1959. Norway wanted…
Israel’s Answer a Fabrication
Arbeiderbladet May 11, 1987 In 1965, Kirk Douglas led a group of courageous Norwegians across the silver screen to Telemark. Their objective? Norwegian heavy water. They would — and did…
Who Controls the Israeli Bomb?
Arbeider Bladet (Oslo) January 21, 1987 The results are now as official as they can get: Israel has the bomb. The revelations of an Israeli arms technician, and a string of…