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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Shimon-Peres-The-architect-of-Israels-nuclear-program-468893

Shimon Peres: The Architect of Israel's Nuclear Program

(Jerusalem Post) Yossi Melman - In the late 1950s and 1960s, Shimon Peres, who then served as the director-general of Israel's Defense Ministry, oversaw the building of a "textile factory" in Dimona, which in fact was a nuclear reactor constructed with the assistance of France. According to foreign reports, Israel has produced uranium and plutonium for an arsenal of nuclear weapons which remain the central factor deterring Arab states and Iran from fulfilling their fantasies of eliminating Israel.

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