Ian Smart
Ian Smart was a young British diplomat who served as third secretary of the British embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1950s.
Ian Smart was a young British diplomat who served as third secretary of the British embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1950s. He later became an international expert in nonproliferation. During his time in Israel, he became curious and suspicious about the activities at Dimona. By the end of 1960, he was reporting his "suspicion" that the site looked like a nuclear reactor, prompted by its visible progress and the palpable French presence in Beersheba.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 5. ↩
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