New book on Israel's nuclear weapons

The Israeli daily Haaretz said that Israel pursues a policy of secrets and vagueness concerning its nuclear policy and its ownership of nuclear power in the region.

Orient radio's correspondent in the occupied Arab territories quoted the paper as saying that Israeli researcher Avin Cohen has published a book under the title "Israel and the nuclear weapons" in which he highlights Israel's ownership of nuclear weapons and bombs.

The paper added that Cohen was obliged to escape to the US, where he published his book away from the Israeli military monitoring system which bans the publication of such information.

The Israeli paper added that in collecting information Cohen had embarked on reliable sources relating to Israeli nuclear weapons. The paper added that Israel pursues a nuclear vagueness policy which permits no one to know what nuclear weapons Israel keeps in Negev.