Carter Says Israel Has 150 Nuclear Weapons

[Canuck_Buck]

LONDON"” Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says Israel has a nuclear arsenal of 150 weapons, The Times of London reported Monday.[/b]
While experts have long maintained Israel has a nuclear arsenal, the Jewish state has refused to confirm or deny it.
Most estimates, many based on evidence leaked in 1986 by Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, put the number of Israeli nuclear weapons at between 100 and 200. But other experts have said the number is as low as 60 or as high as 400.
It was unclear from the newspaper's account whether Carter was citing those estimates, offering his own independent assessment or drawing on U.S. intelligence he would have had access to as president.
U.S. officials have generally avoided the issue of Israel's nuclear status, although during a 2006 Senate confirmation hearing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates confirmed that Israel was a nuclear power.
The Times said Carter made the comment Sunday while at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on the border between England and Wales. He was discussing Iran, and the difficulty it would have in building a secret nuclear arsenal, when he mentioned the Israeli weapons, the paper said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358152,00.html

should the west be worried about this ?

[DougMD]

I hope they have 1,000. What does Carter know? If he hadany knowledge or value whatsoever, he wouldn't have been the worst President in US history!

[Fieldmouse]

I want an investigation on Carter tomorrow. I want to know if he as just committed treason by revealing government secrets. If he has, let him stand trial. I'm tiered of his undermining of foreign policy because he want's too.

[Canuck_Buck]

Bad Jimmy, Bad !

[Lubricious]

It was no secret. That old man is just guessing as to the numbers. Id have to say thats a low estimate.

[Aught Six]

What I don't understand is what that has to do with the question posed to him. Someone asked whether we should be concerned by a nuclear-armed Iran, and he brings up the weapons of other countries?

[Canuck_Buck]

if Isreal gets over-run and them nukes get into the hands of them wacko's what then ?

[Griswold]

It's Jimmy. Hell, I doubt he knew how many nuclear weapons Israel had in 1978. Let alone now.

[Aught Six]

LOL, he did call Russia the Soviet Union, so obviously there is a bit of confusion somewhere in his mind.

[Whitehorse]

One nuclear weapon in the hands of a thug dicatator like Ahmadinejad is more dangerous than our entire arsenal, because that thug is likely to use it or get to some islamist terrorist group who will.

Carter has become not only (one of) the worst presidents, he is undoubtedly the worst former president we've ever had. We do have a chance to give him a second term - an Obama presidency would resemble Carter's, especially looking at the people surrounding Obama.