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category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
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- Person
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- Nuclear
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- Israel
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summary: "George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration."
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born: 1909-12-21
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died: 1994-05-26
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location: "Des Moines, Iowa"
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George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] administration. His office was responsible for rewriting [[William R. Crawford]]'s draft letter from President Kennedy to [[David Ben-Gurion]] regarding [[Israel]]'s nuclear program at [[Dimona]]. Ball's office held onto the letter for days, eventually provoking a complaint from the [[White House]], and when his rewritten version emerged, it had the same message but in "JFK prose."[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 8. |