Nuclear weapons and Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nuclear weapons and Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I should have a scholar's article hopefully and ideally, but this time, I use an article from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is very useful to have basic knowledge, but it is full of biases. This is what we should be careful about.

Anyway, my research this time is the relation between Israel and nuclear weapons.

I listened to a speech of an Israeli diplomat. He sounded like Israel has nuclear capability, but no nuclear weapons. I should be ashamed, but I didn't know that there is a possibility that Israel has nuclear weapons. This brought me to do some research.

According to Wikipedia, Israel is the sixth county that has developed nuclear weapons and one of the four countries that are claimed to have. In other words, Israel has not yet recognized by Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The four countries are India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel.

He says like Israel is working against Iranian nuclear weapon activity for peach, but what's the reality? Doesn't Israel really possess any nuclear weapon? It is not officially recognized that Israel has nuclear weapons, but Israel is one of the suspected countries.

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North Korea Agrees to Suspend Nuclear Work, U.S. Says - NYTimes.com

North Korea Agrees to Suspend Nuclear Work, U.S. Says - NYTimes.com

This is a great news if North Korea really does so. Now, the head of the state is different from some months ago, and many states are watching how this change would work. Is the new leader better? worse?

The previous leader, Kim Jong-il, in my opinion, was not a person who does what he says. He, in my point of view, does not do what he promises. How about the next one? That's what I'm looking at.

Anyway, this is a good step to disarm one of the dangerous states.

I do hope that North Korea is really hoping to curb nuclear work.

First and Second Strike Capabilities

That a country has the first-strike capability does not mean that the country is capable of attacking its adversary. In order to have the first-strike capability, a country has to have enough technology to produce weapons that can reduce or nullify the ability of its adversary.


For example, the US has ability to destruct nuclear-weapon launchers in the Soviet Union. That means that the US has the first-strike capability because it can reduce the ability of launching weapons of the Soviet Union. The US does not randomly launch missiles to somewhere in the Soviet Union.


The second-strike capability is simply the ability to attack back. That a country has the second-strike capability means that it can attack back against its adversary when it had been attacked.


For example, Iran is attacked by the US, and it can attack back against the US. Iran can simply send missiles or drop bombs on the US territories.


Therefore, that a country has the first-strike capability simultaneously means that the country has the second-strike capability, technologically. 




* The examples that I used are not based on the facts. They may be facts, but I am not sure.