Mordechai Vanunu, also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclea
Vanunu in 2009
An aerial view of the Negev Nuclear Research Center in 1968
Frank Barnaby (pictured in 1982) helped verify Vanunu's story, and later testified for him as a defense witness.
Meeting with Vanunu, Ali Kazak, and Bishop Riah Abu Assal in Jerusalem 2005
Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range from 90 to 400 warheads, and the country is believed to possess a nuclear triad of delivery options by air,
Mordechai Vanunu
…Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured from Britain to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and…
INS Tanin, one of five Dolphin-class submarines believed to carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles
Kennedy and Ben-Gurion in 1961.
Mordechai Vanunu's photograph of a Negev Nuclear Research Center glove box containing nuclear materials in a model bomb assembly, one of about 60 photographs he later gave to the British press