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nuclear weapons, Mordechai Vanunu
Vanunu speaks out about prison torment
Whistle-blower: 'I feared brain-washing... They were out to destroy my personality'
DONALD MacINTYRE
Independent, 25 April 2004
Nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu was convinced during his long years of imprisonment that his jailers were out to brainwash him.
Why the US wants Vanunu on a short leash
The terrible secret
URI AVNERY
Gush Shalom, 24 April 2004
In the darkness of a cinema, a woman's voice: "Hey! Take your hands off! Not you! YOU!"
This old joke illustrates the American policy regarding nuclear armaments in the Middle East. "Hey, you there, Iraq and Iran and Libya, stop it! Not YOU, Israel!"
The danger of nuclear arms was the main pretext for the invasion of Iraq. Iran is threatened in order to compel it to stop its nuclear efforts. Libya has surrendered and is dismantling its nuclear installations.
Vanunu 'preeminent hero of nuclear era', says Daniel Ellsberg
Nuclear hero's 'crime' was making us safer
DANIEL ELLSBERG
Los Angeles Times, 21 April 2004
Mordechai Vanunu is the preeminent hero of the nuclear era. He consciously risked all he had in life to warn his own country and the world of the true extent of the nuclear danger facing us. And he paid the full price, a burden in many ways worse than death, for his heroic act — for doing exactly what he should have done and what others should be doing.
Vanunu: The man who knew too much about Israel's nukes
The man who knew too much
ROBERT FISK
Independent, 23 March 2004
He was drugged, kidnapped and locked up for 18 years after revealing Israel's nuclear secrets to the world. Next month Mordechai Vanunu is finally set to be released, but just how much freedom will he be allowed? Robert Fisk reports
Any Israeli who bought the 16 February edition of the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth would have believed that a truly wicked man was about to be released from Ashkelon prison. Each time a suicide bomber blew himself up, the prisoner would celebrate. Worse still, said the paper, the inmate - once a keeper of Israel's nuclear secrets - wants to endanger his country further after his release. "He told me," a former prisoner was quoted as saying, "that he has additional material and that he will reveal secrets..."
