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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: "Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities."
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born: 1914-03-29
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died: 2014-08-05
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location: "Ambala, Punjab, British India"
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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|Israelis]] 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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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 6. |