Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid made a rare allusion to the country’s widely suspected nuclear arsenal during a speech in August. While Israel has not officially acknowledged it possesses nuclear weapons, a widespread consensus exists in the region and among experts in the United States and the Arab world that Israel possesses a number of nuclear weapons. This week on Crux Decode, Zakka Jacob discusses what Lapid’s admission of nuclear weapons mean and what does Israel’s nuclear weapons programme looks like.
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