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Dimona Revealed

Well, first Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission opened a website.

Now, Israel’s censors have permitted Channel 10 to air a 14-minute video depicting wide-angle shots of Dimona (like the photograph at right), “including buses bringing staff to the site, well-ordered lines waiting to use a cash machine and a leisurely soccer game nearby.”

Get the feeling someone has a PR problem?

An older Channel 10 program has an amazing computer generated animation of Dimona based on photographs by Mordechai Vanunu.

I am still looking for a link to the Channel 10 program. Perhaps a Hebrew speaker can find it on the Channel 10 website or maybe somebody in Israel TiVo’d it.

Late Update: Reuters has a 54 second clip from the program. Thanks to ACW Reader YG.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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