Max Ben
Max Ben was a Princeton-trained pharmacologist who was helping the Israelis set up a pharmacology institute under United Nations auspices.
Max Ben was a Princeton-trained pharmacologist who was helping the Israelis set up a pharmacology institute under United Nations auspices. He became a close friend and confidant of Ernst David Bergmann while in Israel. In 1966, Ben visited Dimona and was shown the nuclear facilities, leading him to believe that Israel was making nuclear warheads. He reported his findings to William N. Dale, then deputy chief of mission at the American embassy, with the goal of informing Washington, D.C. about Dimona's accomplishments and seeing how the U.S. could assist Israel.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 12. ↩
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