[Reuters] Dan Williams - The Obama administration will not force Israel to state publicly whether it has nuclear weapons, an Israeli official said Thursday. He said Washington would stick to a decades-old U.S. policy of "don't ask, don't tell." A senior Israeli diplomat, speaking after Prime Minister Netanyahu's summit with Obama in Washington this week, said this message had been conveyed "on the various levels of our bilateral talks." Historians say the Nixon administration forged a tacit policy of not pressing Israel on the matter.
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