(FILES) — Picture dated 08 September 2002 shows a partial view of Israel’s Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Negev desert. Israel armed itself with the “nuclear option” 40 years ago for use as a last resort should Arab countries threaten its existence, one of the men responsible for the state’s nuclear programme, former science minister Yuval Neeman, said in remarks published in Jerusalem 18 March 2005. The Jewish state has never formally acknowledged having nuclear weapons although foreign experts believe it used its desert Dimona reactor to arm itself with some 200 nuclear warheads capable of being carried by medium- or short-range missiles. Israel has never signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which allows international checks on nuclear installations. AFP PHOTO/Thomas COEX
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