Paddenstoelwolk van de Amerikaanse atoombom 'Fat Man' op Nagasaki, 1945. Eén nucleaire kruisraket afgeschoten van de Israëlische Dolphin onderzeeër heeft dezelfde vernietigingskracht.
Nagasaki na de 'Fat Man'. Eén nucleaire kruisraket afgeschoten van de Israëlische Dolphin onderzeeër heeft dezelfde vernietigingskracht.
In juli 2009 voer er een Israëlische nucleaire onderzeeër door het Suezkanaal. En en 10 dagen daarna nog eens twee middenklasse oorlogsschepen. Maar daar had geen enkele Nederlandse krant een berichtje aan gewijd. Het was niet belangrijk, dat een illegale atoommacht, die doorlopend haar buren bedreigt, dat deed. It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. We moesten het in België lezen. En natuurlijk in de Engelstalige pers.
DeMorgen.be 17 juli 2009: Israël bereidt in Suez-kanaal aanval op Iran voor
0p 23 juni 2010 berichtte The Times al: Israel Stations Nuclear Missile Submarines Off Iran’s Coast. In het artikel staat dat Israël drie door Duitsland gebouwde onderzeeërs uitgerust met nucleaire kruisraketten in de Perzische Golf opereren. Nederland zweeg wederom unaniem. Dat publiceren was blijkbaar niet in het belang van de lezers, en de adverteerders, en onze pro-Israël regering. En de wereld stond niet op zijn kop. Immers: it never happened.
Toch, nu Der Spiegel de collaboratie van de Duitse regering met de illegale atoommacht in kaart heeft gebracht, hetgeen blijkbaar twee jaar in beslag heeft genomen, verschijnen er een paar koppen in de Nederlandse pers, maar voorzichtig tussen aanhalingstekens, alsof er aan de woorden van de Duitse regering getwijfeld kan worden. Alsof het wel eens niet waar zou kunnen zijn. Alsof Israël geen schurkenstaat is, met lak aan het internationaal recht, die zoiets nooit zou doen.
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De Israëlische Popeye Turbo kruisraket, aka AGM-142 HAVE NAP
De drie reeds opererende Dolphins zijn uitgerust met 'Popeye Turbo' of AGM-142 HAVE NAP (zie foto) kruisraketten. Gebouwd in Israël met navigatie van o.a. het Amerikaanse Lockheed Martin. Israël testte deze raketten al in 2000, waar ze succesvol vanaf Dolphins werden afgeschoten aan de Sri Lankaanse kust. Het bereik van de kruisraket is onbekend, maar de Federation of American Scientists (FAS) meldt:
There is no particular reason to doubt that Israel could develop a variant of the Popeye Turbo with a range of 1,500 km, simply by lengthening the fuel tank associated with a 300-350 km variant reported by US intelligence. At present it is not possible to determine whether the US intelligence has under-estimated the range of this missile, or whether news reports have over-estimated the missile's range. The longer range reported in June 2000 is certainly consistent with Israeli targetting requirements.
Het is mogelijk deze kruisraket, per stuk, uit te rusten met een kernkop van 200 kilo, met 6 kilo plutonium. Dat is net zo veel als de Fat Man bom die in 1945 door de Amerikanen op Nagasaki werd gegooid.
"Dad took this picture of a young teenage boy who was badly burned by the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki Prefecture on August 9th, 1945." (bron)
Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
Secret cooperation
Der Spiegel | By naam | 03.06.2012 | NEDERLANDS
A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German government has known about Israel's nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials.
Israëlische Dolphin onderzeeër in het Suezkanaal, juli 2009.
Germany is helping Israel to develop its military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has learned. According to extensive research carried out by the magazine, Israel is equipping submarines that were built in the northern German city of Kiel and largely paid for by the German government with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The missiles can be launched using a previously secret hydraulic ejection system. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told SPIEGEL that Germans should be "proud" that they have secured the existence of the state of Israel "for many years."
In the past, the German government has always stuck to the position that it is unaware of nuclear weapons being deployed on the vessels. Now, however, former high-ranking officials from the German Defense Ministry, including former State Secretary Lothar Rühl and former chief of the planning staff Hans Rühle, have told SPIEGEL that they had always assumed that Israel would deploy nuclear weapons on the submarines. Rühl had even discussed the issue with the military in Tel Aviv.
Israel has a policy of not commenting officially on its nuclear weapons program. Documents from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry make it clear, however, that the German government has known about the program since 1961. The last discussion for which there is evidence took place in 1977, when then-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spoke to then-Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan about the issue.
The submarines are built by the German shipyard HDW in Kiel. Three submarines have already been delivered to Israel, and three more will be delivered by 2017. In addition, Israel is considering ordering its seventh, eighth and ninth submarines from Germany.
The German government recently signed the contract for the delivery of the sixth vessel. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, Chancellor Angela Merkel made substantial concessions to the Israelis. Not only is Berlin financing one-third of the cost of the submarine, around €135 million ($168 million), but it is also allowing Israel to defer its payment until 2015.
Merkel had tied the delivery of the sixth submarine to a number of conditions, including a demand that Israel stop its expansionist settlement policy and allow the completion of a sewage treatment plant in the Gaza Strip, which is partially financed with German money. So far, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met none of the terms.
Check back on SPIEGEL International on Monday for the full English-language version of SPIEGEL's cover story on Germany's cooperation with Israel over its submarine program.
Lees ook van het Amerikaanse leger (USAF Counterproliferation Center) → The Third Temple's Holy Of Holies: Israel's Nuclear Weapons
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