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NRDC: Nuclear Notebook Israeli nuclear forces, 2002 http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=so02norris By Robert S. Norris, William Arkin, Hans M. Kristensen, and Joshua Handler September/October 2002 pp. 73-75 (vol. 58, no. 05) © 2002 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists It is Israeli policy to neither confirm nor deny that it possesses nuclear weapons, although it is generally accepted by friend and foe alike that Israel has been a nuclear state for several decades. Its declaratory policy states: "Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East," but its actual deployment and employment policies are secret. A January 2001 Pentagon report, Proliferation: Threat and Responses, omits Israel from its review of the Middle East, but a 1991 U.S. Strategic Air Command study lists Israel, India, and Pakistan as "de facto" nuclear weapon states. Estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal range from 75--200 weapons, comprising bombs, missile warheads, and possibly non-strategic (tactical) weapons. http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=so02norris
