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05/27/2008: "Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons' says ex president Carter"

He also described Israeli treatment of Palestinians as "one of the greatest human rights crimes on earth".

Most experts estimate that Israel has between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads, largely based on information leaked to the Sunday Times newspaper in the 1980s by Mordechai Vanunu, a former worker at the country's Dimona nuclear reactor.

The US, a key ally of Israel, has in general followed the country's policy of "nuclear ambiguity", neither confirming or denying the existence of its assumed arsenal.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert included Israel among a list of nuclear states in comments in December 2006, a week after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates used a similar form of words during a Senate hearing.

[ Why won't the US insist they tell the truth about their nuclear arsenal? It is in the US interest that this would be disclosed - but NOT in the Jewish interest - and that's the only interest the US govenment cares about. ]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7420573.stm