Paul C. Warnke
Assistant Secretary of Defense who pressured Israel to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and directly confronted Israel about its nuclear weapons program.
Paul C. Warnke served as the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He was involved in intense pressure on Israel to sign the NPT in exchange for F-4 fighter jets. Warnke directly questioned Yitzhak Rabin, then Israel's ambassador to Washington, D.C., about Israel's nuclear capabilities, stating, "we are shocked at the manner in which you are dealing with us.… You, our close ally, are building nuclear bombs in Israel behind our back."1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 14. ↩
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