DoomsdaysCW<p>STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL<br>PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> continues to maintain its long-standing policy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> opacity: it neither officially confirms nor denies that it possesses <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a>. In December 2014 the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearProliferation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearProliferation</span></a> risks in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> that urged Israel to renounce the possession of nuclear weapons, accede to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPT</span></a>) ‘without further delay’ and place all of its nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IAEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAEA</span></a>) comprehensive safeguards.</p><p>"It is estimated that Israel has approximately 80 nuclear weapons. Of these, approximately 30 are gravity bombs for delivery by aircraft. The remaining 50 weapons are for delivery by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JerichoII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JerichoII</span></a> medium-range ballistic missiles, which are believed to be based with their mobile launchers in caves at a military base east of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jerusalem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jerusalem</span></a>. The operational status of a new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JerichoIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JerichoIII</span></a> intermediate-range <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BallisticMissile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BallisticMissile</span></a> is unknown. In 2013 Israel conducted a launching test of a ‘rocket propulsion system’, which appeared to be for a Jericho III missile."</p><p><a href="https://www.sipri.org/research/armaments-and-disarmament/nuclear-weapons/world-nuclear-forces/israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sipri.org/research/armaments-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-disarmament/nuclear-weapons/world-nuclear-forces/israel</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a></p>