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Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer. | 1925-05-14 | 2006-04-26 | Tel Aviv |
Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer. He was directly involved in Israel's nuclear weapons program. Neeman was responsible for drafting David Ben-Gurion's responses to John F. Kennedy's increasingly sour correspondence regarding Dimona. Neeman described the exchange as "not a friendly exchange" and that Kennedy was "writing like a bully. It was brutal."1
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 9. ↩︎