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HE TOLD THE WORLD ISRAEL HAD NUKES
Mordechai Vanunu worked as a technician at Israel top-secret nuclear facility in Dimona for eight years. In 1986 he walked into the offices of The Sunday Times (@thetimes) in London and handed over photographs he had secretly taken inside the plant. He told them Israel had somewhere between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads. The experts verified every word.
The Sunday Times published the story on 5 October 1986. It was one of the most significant nuclear revelations in history.
Israel response was not a press release. It was a Mossad operation.
A female agent posing as an American tourist named Cindy started a relationship with Vanunu in London. She invited him on a romantic holiday. He flew to Rome on British Airways flight 504. That was the last time he stood on free soil for 18 years.
He was drugged, bound, and secretly shipped back to Israel on a cargo vessel. His trial was held in total secrecy. He was sentenced to 18 years for treason and espionage, 11 of which he spent in solitary confinement in a cell roughly the size of a parking space.
The kidnapping happened on British soil, or close to it. The Sunday Times had brought him to London. Mossad tracked him there. UK intelligence knew. Margaret Thatcher's government was briefed. Nobody did a thing.
When he was finally released in 2004, Israel banned him from leaving the country, banned him from speaking to foreign journalists, and arrested him multiple times for doing exactly that. In 2007 he was jailed again for speaking to foreigners.
Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience. American whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg called him "the preeminent hero of the nuclear era."
The country that kidnapped him on European soil faced no consequences. The country that published his story moved on. And Israel's nuclear arsenal, still unacknowledged, still unsupervised by the international community, remains one of the worst-kept secrets in geopolitics.
Sources: The Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC, Others

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