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Although Israel has never recognized its nuclear weapon program, experts say it is the most secret in the Middle East. “Israel is unique among nuclear armed states because it does not confirm or denies its nuclear capacity,” according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Israel is one of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, including the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea, according to the International Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Israel has not signed the 1970 nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is opposed to diplomatic efforts to establish a free area of WMD in the Middle East. He signed and ratified the 1963 limited nuclear test prohibition treaty, which forces signatories not to explode a nuclear device in the atmosphere or the oceans.
How long has Israel have nuclear weapons? Israel began to explore the development of nuclear weapons before its creation in 1948, then on a secret development site in 1958, near the southern city of Dimona.
It is largely believed that Israel gathered its first nuclear weapon for the first time around 1966 or 1967. In 1968, the CIA said that Israel had succeeded in starting the production of nuclear weapons.
Israel would have carried out an underground atmospheric nuclear test in 1979, which he denies.
What is the size of its arsenal? Israel now has about 90 nuclear warheads and has enough nuclear materials to produce up to 300 nuclear weapons, according to Nuclear Threat Initiative, an NGO based in the United States.
He continues to modernize his stock, according to Sipri, who declared that Israel had carried out a test of a missile propulsion system in 2024 which could be linked to his family Jericho of ballistic missiles capable of nuclear.
Israel also seems to improve its plutonium production reactor site in Dimona, Sipri said.
