American-Israeli understandings on the nuclear issue came into being in 1970 through meetings between President Richard Nixon and Prime Minister Golda Meir. The United States no longer pressed Israel to sign the NPT; it also ended the visits at Dimona. In return, Israel is committed to maintaining a low profile nuclear posture: no testing, no declaration, no acknowledgment. With these "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" understandings nuclear opacity was born. Those understanding persist today.

Israel and the Bomb
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/israel/index.htm


"This was a difficult book for Avner Cohen to write. As an Israeli, he had to break the code of silence that surrounds the discussion of nuclear weapons in his homeland. But he has done a superb job of laying out the political history of Israel's nuclear program from its foundation in 1950 through the acceptance by the United States of Israel as a nuclear-weapon state in 1970. Cohen has achieved the impossible. With ''Israel and the Bomb,'' he has written a scholarly treatise that includes over 1,200 footnotes, yet reads like a novel."
--Lawrence Korb
New York Times Book Review
Nov. 1, 1998

same with the nukes at the WTC. very little detectable radiation. pretty clean except right at the site. not much af an EMP either, though that was probably shielded under ground.

ever see a robin eat a worm? they get it on top of the ground and then keep pecking at it until it no longer moves. then they eat it. i guess it will tryt o crawl out if that isnt done.