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To: sukhoi-30mki

Interesting stuff from your link:

“Israel is a nation with a state religion, but its top leaders are not religious Jews. The intricacies of Jewish religious politics and rabbinical law do affect their politics and decision processes. In Jewish law, there are two types of war, one obligatory and mandatory (milkhemet mitzvah) and the one authorized but optional (milkhemet reshut).140 The labeling of Prime Minister Begin’s “Peace for Galilee” operation as a milchemet brera (“war of choice”) was one of the factors causing it to lose support.141 Interpretation of Jewish law concerning nuclear weapons does not permit their use for mutual assured destruction. However, it does allow possession and threatening their use, even if actual use is not justifiable under the law. Interpretations of the law allow tactical use on the battlefield, but only after warning the enemy and attempting to make peace. How much these intricacies affect Israeli nuclear strategy decisions is unknown.142

The secret nature of the Israeli nuclear program has hidden the increasing problems of the aging Dimona reactor and adverse worker health effects. Information is only now public as former workers sue the government. This issue is now linked to continued tritium production for the boosted anti-tank and anti-missile nuclear warheads that Israeli continues to need. Israel is attempting to obtain a new, more efficient, tritium production technology developed in India.143”


So, any of the bombs that India tested in 1998 that had something to do with Israel?


16 posted on 12/12/2010 9:34:35 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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To: James C. Bennett

Nope. The article seems to suggest that Israel wants to obtain Tritium extraction tech from India, and not the other way around.

India developed a highly efficient process for the process of extraction of tritium from Heavy Water (deuterium), sometime in the late 80s. Tritium is used in the production of boosted fission weapons. Which is what the article says they want to produce for anti tank and other purposes.


21 posted on 12/13/2010 2:36:27 AM PST by ketelone
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To: James C. Bennett

Paki media at that time claimed that three of the low-yield devices which were tested were of Israeli origin given that they had more pressing requirements and said that the whole thing was a Jewish-Hindu project. I clearly remember hearing reports on that-not many sources on line.


23 posted on 12/13/2010 3:50:26 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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