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Yuval Neeman

Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer.

Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer. He was directly involved in Israel's nuclear weapons program. Neeman was responsible for drafting David Ben-Gurion's responses to John F. Kennedy's increasingly sour correspondence regarding Dimona. Neeman described the exchange as "not a friendly exchange" and that Kennedy was "writing like a bully. It was brutal."1

  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 9.

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