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In Shocking Breach, U.S. Reveals Some of Israel's Nuclear Capabilities
(Weekly Standard) Tom Gross - On Feb. 12, the Pentagon declassified a top-secret document from 1987 detailing Israel's nuclear program, but kept sections on France, Germany, and Italy classified and blacked out. The declassification is a serious breach of decades' old understandings concerning this issue. Israel has never admitted to having nuclear weapons. Together with leaking incorrect allegations that Israel spies on the U.S., this "is part of a pattern of carefully controlled leaking of information which is very hard to attribute to a specific government agency or individual. Nevertheless it is clear what is happening," said an informed person connected to the government in Jerusalem. "The failure to maintain the degree of mature and cooperative discretion that officials from several governments have exercised up to now marks a serious change in the code of conduct."