Full document here:
http://cryptome.org/2015/03/ida-ctaiiann.pdf
Only information on Israel has been declassified. Information on NATO nations are redacted.
Basic assessment is that Israel pretty much copied Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge. Fission weapons capabilities were where the US was in 1955 to 1960. Weapons designs were very conservative. Hydrogen bombs were not yet available. Although Israel was developing computer simulation capabilities using the same sort of codes used by the US, quite a few challenges remained at the time.
Israel allowed for the release of a document detailing past nuclear weapons work - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
http://cryptome.org/2015/03/ida-ctaiiann.pdf
Only information on Israel has been declassified. Information on NATO nations are redacted.
Basic assessment is that Israel pretty much copied Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge. Fission weapons capabilities were where the US was in 1955 to 1960. Weapons designs were very conservative. Hydrogen bombs were not yet available. Although Israel was developing computer simulation capabilities using the same sort of codes used by the US, quite a few challenges remained at the time.
Israel allowed for the release of a document detailing past nuclear weapons work - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
The document, “Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations,” was written by Leading Technologies Inc. for the Institute for Defense Analyses, and commissioned by the US Department of Defense. Its contents are based on visits by US experts, in coordination with the embassy in Tel Aviv and with the guidance of the Pentagon, to facilities and laboratories across Israel.
While Israel has never publicly acknowledged having nuclear weapons, foreign sources say it does. Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
This document summarizes in detail Washington’s understanding of the nature and purpose of that program as it stood in the 1980s.
Two of Israel’s nuclear facilities at the time, the Soreq Nuclear Research Center near Yavne and the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, “are the equivalent of our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories,” the US document reads.
“The Soreq center runs the full nuclear gamut of activities from engineering, administration, and nondestructive testing to electro-optics, pulsed power, process engineering and chemistry and nuclear research and safety,” the paper continues.
“This is the technology base required for nuclear weapons design and fabrication.”
The report goes on to detail Israel’s experimentation with various nuclear fuels, laserbased nuclear weapons detonation devices and the effects of radiation propagation.
While the assessment concluded that, at the time, Israel’s weapons design was “extremely conservative,” it said the Jewish state was experimenting with coding “which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs.”
While Israel has never publicly acknowledged having nuclear weapons, foreign sources say it does. Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
This document summarizes in detail Washington’s understanding of the nature and purpose of that program as it stood in the 1980s.
Two of Israel’s nuclear facilities at the time, the Soreq Nuclear Research Center near Yavne and the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, “are the equivalent of our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories,” the US document reads.
“The Soreq center runs the full nuclear gamut of activities from engineering, administration, and nondestructive testing to electro-optics, pulsed power, process engineering and chemistry and nuclear research and safety,” the paper continues.
“This is the technology base required for nuclear weapons design and fabrication.”
The report goes on to detail Israel’s experimentation with various nuclear fuels, laserbased nuclear weapons detonation devices and the effects of radiation propagation.
While the assessment concluded that, at the time, Israel’s weapons design was “extremely conservative,” it said the Jewish state was experimenting with coding “which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs.”
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