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POPSBBC: Israel's Secret Weapon Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's nuclear whistle-blower, was jailed in 1986 for publishing photographs of Israel's nuclear bomb factory at Dimona. Olenka Frenkiel reveals the extent of Israel's nuclear gagging. Vanunu has spent 17 years in jail, 11 of which were in a minute solitary confinement cell. Sunday Times journalist Peter Hounam heard rumours in 1986 that an Israeli whistle-blower was offering proof of what the world had long suspected. Vanunu was that whistle-blower. His revelations confirmed that Israel was building advanced nuclear weapons. After the Sunday Times published this scoop, Vanunu was lured to Italy and kidnapped by Mossad agents and illegally smuggled back to Israel. He was tried in secret and convicted of treason and spying.
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