Is it safe to let Israel have a estimated arsenal of 400 nuclear wepons!?

Question

i ve just visited this site and found out that israel has 400 nukes considering there record in brakeing un rules should they not have santions imposed by the member countrys!

www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/farr.htm

Answer 1

ummm, no??!!? Nuclear weapons aren't safe period.

Answer 2

This is a short answer, because the totality of the political situation is too large to address here.
In the history of modern Israel, there has never been a single incident of the Israeli government or military instigating an attack, war of aggression, or declaration of war against any nation on earth. They HAVE been the wrong people to try to attack, and have not only repulsed every attempt to destroy them, but Israel has hurt those who tried.
Israel has never violated international arms treaties. Any arms sales Israel has been involved in have been with open international knowledge.
Israel's weapons program was known about in the late 1960's/early 1970's, the world political stage was far different than today, and given the amount of attacks and actions of aggression AGAINST Israel, no one was particularly willing to refute their right to defend them selves.
Israel's nukes are 'theater defense' weapons, suitable only for tactical defense, and not inter-continental or ballistic attack, as such deemed a lower class threat to world stability on the whole.
The national character of Israel is assurance enough to the U.N. that the LAST thing Israel will ever do is sell the weapons or technology for nukes.
being a nuke power for 30+ years makes it wayyy too late for anyone to do anything now, nor will the U.N try.
By the way, no one actually knows the exact # of nukes Israel has, just the types.

Answer 3

1st, your "source" is not a credible organization. 2nd, Almost everyone is convinced that Israel has had nukes for decades. They haven't used them despite the extreme provocatios of the Yom Kippur war & Saddam's missile attacks. 3rd what rules have they broken? The UN charter explocitly approves of the right to self defense. If Mexicans or Canadians were murdering Americans, I hope our govt would be a lot less restrained than the Israelis have been.

Answer 4

Sure. Why not? If I had the nieghbors that Israel has now, I'm sure that I would want a nice stockpile of weapons. The UN and its rules are nothing. The only thing that the UN is good for is sending in its peace keepers to other countries to commit sex crimes. The UN needs to go away forever.

Answer 5

Hmm, let's see, France, Great Britain, China, Pakistan, India, North Korea, Israel & maybe a South American country have nukes. Of these countries, you're worried over a free, small, democratic country that has fought defensive wars. Isreael has sent aid to help countries with natural disasters that those countries refused while begging the U.S. to send aid. Pakistan, India, and North Korea have been making noises about using their nukes. And you're worried about Israel?

Answer 6

If you're saying Israel has broken U.N. sanctions, I assume you mean they break the cease fire when the Palestinians continue to attack Israel, while they (Israel) sit back and take it for weeks at a time, before they retaliate. The Palestinians seem to think that the cease fire should only apply to Israel and not to them ! I would much rather see nukes in Israel's hands than Iran !

Answer 7

As Zionists in Palestine watched World War II from their distant sideshow, what lessons were learned? The soldiers of the Empire of Japan vowed on their emperor's sacred throne to fight to the death and not face the inevitability of an American victory. Many Jews wondered if the Arabs would try to push them into the Mediterranean Sea. After the devastating American nuclear attack on Japan, the soldier leaders of the empire reevaluated their fight to the death position. Did the bomb give the Japanese permission to surrender and live? It obviously played a military role, a political role, and a peacemaking role. How close was the mindset of the Samurai culture to the Islamic culture?

Never Again!

- Reportedly welded on the
first Israeli nuclear bomb

Israel went on full-scale nuclear alert again on the first day of Desert Storm, 18 January 1991. Seven SCUD missiles were fired against the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa by Iraq (only two actually hit Tel Aviv and one hit Haifa). This alert lasted for the duration of the war, 43 days. Over the course of the war, Iraq launched around 40 missiles in 17 separate attacks at Israel. Threats of retaliation by the Shamir government if the Iraqis used chemical warheads were interpreted to mean that Israel intended to launch a nuclear strike if gas attacks occurred. Shortly before the end of the war the Israelis tested a “nuclear capable” missile which prompted the United States into intensifying its SCUD hunting in western Iraq to prevent any Israeli response.[

All of this validated the nuclear arsenal in the minds of the Israelis. In particular the confirmed capability of Arab states without a border with Israel, the so-called “second tier” states, to reach out and touch Israel with ballistic missiles confirmed Israel's need for a robust first strike capability. Israel must be in a position to threaten another Hiroshima to prevent another holocaust.

One list of current reasons for an Israeli nuclear capability is:

-To deter a large conventional attack,
-To deter all levels of unconventional (chemical, biological, nuclear) attacks,
-To preempt enemy nuclear attacks,
-To support conventional preemption against enemy nuclear assets,
-To support conventional preemption against enemy non-nuclear (conventional, chemical, biological) assets,
For nuclear warfighting,
-The “Samson Option” (last resort destruction)

If you were a country who lived among those arab states..you'd have to have a nuclear arsenal.

Answer 8

I don't think you have to worry about Israel ever using a Nuke, except in a last result, what would they have to gain from it?

Answer 9

That's probably one of the worlds worst kept military secrets. Israel never signed the non proliferation treaty so there would be no justification for imposing sanctions.

Answer 10

Don't believe everything you read. I wouldn't be surprised if they had SOME but I would be surprised if anyone knew the true number. And 400 is quite a lot.

Answer 11

Better our friend and ally Israel than the 'death to America' gang from Iran.