Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 23, 2005).
"September 1999."
Contents
Abstract -- Introduction -- 1948-1962: With French cooperation -- 1963-1973: Seeing the project through to completion -- 1974-1999: Bringing the bomb up the basement stairs -- Appendix: Estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal.
Summary
This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources ... Israel has most probably conducted several nuclear bomb tests. They have continued to modernize and vertically proliferate and are now one of the world's larger nuclear powers. Using 'bomb in the basement' nuclear opacity, Israel has been able to use its arsenal as a deterrent to the Arab world while not technically violating American nonproliferation requirements.
