Israel's Nuclear Secrets

Witness History: Archive 2013 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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In October 1986, an Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed his country's secret nuclear weapons programme. Vanunu told his story to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper. He was later kidnapped by Israeli agents, taken back to Israel and put on trial for espionage.Photo: Mordechai Vanunu in detention, Israel, 1986 (AP)