THE CURRENT → THE BEAT Issue 851 · March 3, 2021

What’s Going Down in Dimona? 

Is the reactor active, and is the emergence of the photos of a top-secret defense installation a slip-up?

What’s Going Down in Dimona? 
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The Backstory: What’s Going Down in Dimona?

Something is afoot in Israel’s nuclear weapons program, and the world is meant to know about it.

An AP news report based on commercially available satellite images that made headlines last week showed the nuclear facility in Dimona undergoing its largest construction work in decades. The photos show a dig about as wide as a football field and several stories deep close to the main reactor. In one image, steam is seen coming from a building near the famous silver dome. AP noted that the Israeli government refused to address its questions on the matter.

So what’s really going on at Dimona? Is the reactor active, and is the emergence of the photos of a top-secret defense installation a slip-up?

Shas MK Yaakov Margi, who worked at Dimona in the past, is convinced that what’s going in is a deliberate misinformation campaign designed to convince the world that the reactor is active.

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