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Originally Posted by Tactitus
And yet Egypt and Syria did just that--they attacked Israel in 1973 (Israel had the bomb by the late '60s, possibly even at the time of the Six-Day war but certainly by the time of the Yom Kippur war). One should never count on one's enemies being in their right minds (especially, I think, in the middle east). :/
Also, I do not think Israel will be the only nuclear power in the region for too much longer (and if 'the region' includes Pakistan they already aren't).
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Mordechai Vannunu was abducted and imprisoned by the Israeli Government in 1986 for an interview he gave to the LA Times in which he announced to the world that Israel had a nuclear arsenal. Whilst it may have been suspected by others, it was not proven or even widely acknowledged until the time this was published.
Vannunu did not even start working for at Dimona, the Israeli nuclear installation, until 1976, so it is highly unlikely that when planning an attack on Israel, Syria or Egypt had any foreknowledge that they were attacking a nuclear state.