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Nuclear Strategy
Continued from Page 1
report in the Geneva-based
International Defense Review.
According to the journal,
Israel has developed and
tested a new missile — the
Jericho-II — capable of being
armed with a nuclear
warhead, which will even-
tually have a range of 1,400
kilometers.
Such a missile would not
only be capable of carrying its
(theoretical) nuclear payload
to the most distant Arab
capitals, it would also be
capable of reaching parts of
the Soviet Union, including
the strategic naval ports of
the Black Sea.
Moreover, the development
of the Jericho-II — which is
reported to be roughly
equivalent to the United
States Pershing missile —
would immeasurably com-
plicate the arms-reduction
talks now underway between
Moscow and Washington.
The Soviet Union re-
sponded to reports of the
Jericho-II with a series of
threats and menaces over the
Hebrew-language service of
Radio Moscow.
Israel, warned the Soviet
commentator, would not long
enjoy a nuclear monopoly in
the region. And unless it sup-
ported Moscow's initiative to
eliminate medium-range
weapons in Asia, the Soviet
Union might deploy similar
missiles in neighboring Arab
states.
That might have been just
what the Israelis wanted to
hear. With both Egypt and
Jordan unlikely to join an
Arab war coalition against
Israel in the near future, the
immediate military threat to
the Jewish State comes from
President Hafez Assad of
Syria, who is both Moscow's
closest ally in the region and
Israel's most implacable
enemy.
By testing the Jericho-II
missile over the Mediterra-
nean, which defense analysts
believe could not have been
missed by both Western and
Soviet satellites, Israel might
have been sending a timely
message to Moscow not to ac-
cede to President Assad's
demands for its advanced
SS-23 ground-to-ground
missiles.
These Soviet missiles,
which have a range of 450
kilometers, would threaten
all of Israel's main population
centers and could have the ef-
fect of devastating Israel's
major cities.
Last week, Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres stated
emphatically that "Israel
does not view the Soviet
Union as an enemy and has
no hostile intentions towards
her."
Then, as if to underscore
the deterrent nature of the
new missile, he added: "Israel
welcomes the willingness of
the Soviet Union to restrain
the arms race in our region,
as manifested by Moscow's
announced intention to avoid
introducing short- and
medium-range missiles into
the Middle East.
"Israel,"
he
added,
"reiterates its call for direct
negotiations between the
countries of the region for the
establishment of a nuclear-
free zone in the Middle East."
He also reaffirmed Israel's
readiness to enter into a
dialogue with its Arab
neighbors "in order to reach
such an agreement, including
accord on the non
introduction of short- and
medium-range missiles by
either side."
The Jericho-II affair —
however it is ultimately
resolved — is just the latest
twist in a cat-and-mouse
game that Israel has been
playing for almost three
decades with the rest of the
world — not least the United
States — over its supposed
nuclear capability.
Israel has consistently
refused to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, and
its nuclear facility near the
Negev Desert town of Dimona
has therefore remained im-
mune from international
inspection.
The avalanche of charges
and speculation — both in
political circles and in the
media — began on December
9, 1960, when Israeli Am-
bassador to Washington
Avraham Harman was sum-
moned to the State Depart-
ment. The United States, he
was told, had reason to
believe that the structure in
Dimona was not, after all, a
textile factory, as Israel claim-
ed, but a nuclear reactor
which would ultimately be
capable of producing nuclear
weapons.
United States officials were
particularly incensed that
their own intelligence ser-
vices had failed to determine
the purpose of the facility
earlier and, according to per-
sistent rumors in
Washington, this lapse led
President Kennedy to fire
Allen Dulles as head of the
CIA.
The dramatic claims about
Israel's nuclear capability
last October by Mordechai
Vanunu, a former technician
at the Dimona facility, were
just the latest in a long
stream that date back nearly
27 years.
In an interview with the
London Sunday Times,
Vanunu alleged that Israel