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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Authors & Journalists	Person Nuclear Israel	Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities.	1914-03-29	2014-08-05	Ambala, Punjab, British India

Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British Intelligence and nuclear communities. In December 1960, he published a major story in the London Daily Express stating that "British and American intelligence authorities believe that the Israel are well on the way to building their first experimental nuclear bomb." Pincher had received a tip from a senior figure in British atomic weapons research and verified the story with a contact in Mossad.¹

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 6. ↩︎