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Harry H. Schwartz was an aide to Paul C. Warnke, the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He was present at a meeting where Warnke directly questioned Yitzhak Rabin, then Israel's ambassador to Washington D.C., about Israel's nuclear capabilities. Schwartz recalled Warnke stating, "Mr. Ambassador, we are shocked at the manner in which you are dealing with us.… You, our close ally, are building nuclear bombs in Israel behind our back."¹

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 14. ↩︎