- In 1942, the United States initiated the Manhattan Project after Albert Einstein warned the Americans that German scientists had successfully created nuclear fission. However, Hitler had no interest. The US had made itself the introducer of nuclear militarization, as its research resulted in the first nuclear bomb.
- Israel signed the "Atoms for Peace" agreement with the United States on July 12, 1955.
- In 1956, the then-Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, made it clear that he wanted a similar 'project'. The Israeli agent, Zalman Mordechai Shapiro, started stealing highly enriched uranium from the Americans. The Israelis have violated the agreement.
- In 1960, the United States, under President John F. Kennedy, learns about the construction of the Dimona reactor
- In 1963, the secretly built Dimona reactor came into operation.
- In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy took action but came into a war of words (letters) with the Israelis. He was assassinated that same year. JFK was the only US president who tried to stop the Israelis from obtaining nuclear weapons.
- Between 1967 and 1968, the Israelis managed to have their first nuclear bomb.
- In 1979, a revolution broke out in Iran. Khomeini banned the nuclear energy program, not a nuclear weapons program, as Iran under the Shah didn't violate the Atoms for Peace Agreement. Khomeini banned the energy program because he found it un-Islamic.
- In 1982, at the UNGA in New York, Menachem Begin, then the Israeli Prime Minister, spoke these words: "Make sure that 'no enemy' has a reactor." His words became a doctrine after an Israeli airstrike on the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq in 1981.
- The Israeli bombardment of an Iranian presence at Assad's 4th division army base on Qasioun Mountain, Damascus governorate, was the first preemptive attack on Iran in line with the Menachem Begin doctrine we've documented on May 5, 2013.
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