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投稿者 衛星屋 日時 2000 年 8 月 19 日 11:09:50:
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http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/facility/dimona_pir.html
以下、フロリダトゥデイの記事。
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August 19, 2000
Satellite images of Israeli nuclear reactor published
Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in this news report may not be
published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of the Associated Press.
By Mark Lavie
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) - New satellite pictures of Israel's nuclear reactor were published on the
front page of an Israeli mass-circulation newspaper Friday, a sign that the country's nuclear
weapons capability is being discussed here with increasing openness after decades of
silence.
The Yediot Ahronot daily said the high-resolution pictures came from the Federation of
American Scientists Internet Web site. The pictures, taken July 4 by IKONOS, a civilian
satellite, are sold on the Internet by Space Imaging Corp.
It has long been assumed that Israel manufactures nuclear weapons at the Dimona reactor
in the southern Negev Desert, though Israel has never admitted it, sticking to a policy of
nuclear ambiguity.
In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, who worked as a technician at Dimona, was sentenced to 18
years in prison for giving pictures taken inside the reactor to The Sunday Times of London.
Based on the photographs, experts said at the time that Israel had the world's sixth-largest
stockpile of nuclear weapons.
In the photographs published Friday, the reactor's dome is clearly visible in the largest picture
in the paper, along with the rest of the buildings in the complex. In a second photo spread, on
an inside page, Yediot Ahronot provided a five-panel illustration entitled, "How to make a
bomb."
Earlier this week, Israel television broadcast satellite photos of Dimona taken in 1968 and
1971, also provided by the Federation of American Scientists Web site. A report on the site
said the new pictures show that the capacity of the reactor has not been increased.
Up to now, Israel's military censor has prevented local outlets from using pictures of the
reactor. But the Internet cannot be controlled, said David Ronen of the censor's office in
Jerusalem. "If it's taken from the Internet, it can be printed, as long as the source is noted,"
Ronen said.
Israel's official policy about nuclear weapons is "opacity," statements meant to leave all the
possibilities open without admitting anything. There has been only sporadic debate about the
issue, and the anti-nuclear lobby in Israel is tiny.
On The Net:
Federation of American Scientists site: http://sun00781.dn.net/index .html
Space Imaging Corp. site: http://www.spaceimaging.com
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