Israel Insight

Touching on Dimona , Israel: I think a great place to cover a song from...

I have been researching Dimona today, and here are some very skeletal notes:

Dimona is considered the home, origin of the Black Israelites/ black hebrew community the "Village of Peace" (where birth control is forbidden...)

The Dimona Radar Facility is a facility under construction near Dimona, Israel consisting of two 400 meter (1,300 feet) tall radar towers, designed to track ballistic missiles through space and provide ground-based missiles with the targeting data needed to intercept them.[1] Using AN/TPY-2 X-band radar, it can detect missiles up to 1,500 miles away.[2] The towers are owned and operated by the US military, whichprovide only second hand intelligence to Israel.[2][1]

The towers of the facility are the tallest towers in Israel, and the tallest used for radar in the world.[3]

Notes on the Nuclear Ambiguity in Dimona (?):

"When the United States intelligence community discovered the purpose of the site in the early 1960s, the U.S. government demanded that Israel agree to international inspections. Israel agreed, but on the condition that U.S., rather than International Atomic Energy Agency, inspectors be used, and that Israel would receive advance notice of all inspections. Israel is one of only three nations thought to possess nuclear weapons never to have signed the NPT ( others are India and Pakistan )."