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Is Israel Deploying Cruise Missiles With Nuclear Warheads On German Built Submarines?

Sunday, June 3, 2012 19:05
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Germany is helping Israel to develop its military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has learned. According to extensive research carried out by the magazine, Israel is equipping submarines that were built in the northern German city of Kiel and largely paid for by the German government with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The missiles can be launched using a previously secret hydraulic ejection system. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told SPIEGEL that Germans should be "proud" that they have secured the existence of the state of Israel "for many years."

 

 

In the past, the German government has always stuck to the position that it is unaware of nuclear weapons being deployed on the vessels. Now, however, former high-ranking officials from the German Defense Ministry, including former State Secretary Lothar Rühl and former chief of the planning staff Hans Rühle, have told SPIEGEL that they had always assumed that Israel would deploy nuclear weapons on the submarines. Rühl had even discussed the issue with the military in Tel Aviv.

 

Israel has a policy of not commenting officially on its nuclear weapons program. Documents from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry make it clear, however, that the German government has known about the program since 1961. The last discussion for which there is evidence took place in 1977, when then-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spoke to then-Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan about the issue.

The submarines are built by the German shipyard HDW in Kiel. Three submarines have already been delivered to Israel, and three more will be delivered by 2017. In addition, Israel is considering ordering its seventh, eighth and ninth submarines from Germany.  Read more here:  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/israel-deploys-nuclear-weapons-on-german-submarines-a-836671.html

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  • shoeupon67

    ““`Germans should be “proud” that they have secured the existence of the state of Israel “for many years.”“““ IT WAS NOT THE GERMANS THAT KILLED 6 MILLIONS JEWS , IT WAS MY MOTHER IN LAW.

  • Please send your mother in law the gratitude of BILLIONS of goyim worldwide.

  • What a Sad,Sick,Society..Killing innocent people all over the world….Oh My

  • Anonymous

    ONCE A NAZI ? ALWAYS A NAZI !

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