Mystery AtlasIsrael
A country widely assessed, though never officially confirmed, to have conducted a joint low-yield nuclear test with South Africa detected in the 1979 Vela incident; maintains a longstanding policy of neither confirming nor denying its nuclear arsenal.
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Related Mysteries
- 1979 Vela Incident22 September 1979
Israel was accused of 1979 Vela Incident — Widely assessed by declassified analyses and later reanalysis as the probable co-participant in a joint test with South Africa; never confirmed, and Israel has never acknowledged it.
Places
Israel contains Qumran.
Israel is frequently compared to South Africa — Both pursued undeclared nuclear weapons programmes during the Cold War and are widely reported to have cooperated militarily in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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