Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with BBC News Brasil about Israel’s nuclear program. The original article is in Portuguese and it was also translated into French for BBC News Afrique.
“Israel has never taken an official position,” John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, told BBC News Brasil.
“They have always relied on ambiguity: they have never declared that they have nuclear weapons capability , but they have also never declared that they do not have it,” says Erath, whose organization brings together analysis and research on arms control and non-proliferation.
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Erath, of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, notes that Israel is “surrounded by countries that are hostile to it.”
“Therefore, Israel feels that nuclear weapons are essential as a guarantee of its continued existence,” Erath says.
