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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Nuclear Scientists & Programs	Person Nuclear Physicist Israel	American physicist and Nobel laureate who visited Israel's Dimona reactor in 1961 and reported no evidence of a weapons facility.	1898-07-29	1988-01-11	Rymanów, Galicia (Austria-Hungary)

I. I. Rabi was an American physicist and Nobel laureate. He, along with Eugene Wigner, was asked by the Israelis to visit the still-incomplete reactor at Dimona sometime early in 1961. They reported seeing no evidence of a weapons facility, and President John F. Kennedy expressed satisfaction with their conviction that the reactor was designed for peaceful purposes.¹

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 8. ↩︎