Israel does not possess nuclear weapons nor is it able to deploy any such weapons.

Had you have based your little ditty on that, your press attention would not have been what it was!!!

That is the same Gunter Grass who finally got around to admitting in 2006 that he was part of the Waffen SS, after half a century of denying it?

I mean, yeah, Lendman's a tedious fool, but you'd think he'd at least do enough checking to find out whether he was defending someone who volunteered for the SS.

Grass said he volunteered mainly to "get away. From constrictions, from the family. I wanted to put an end to all that, and so I volunteered. And that's also something odd: I enlisted at the age of 15, and promptly forgot the details of the process. And it was the same for many of my birth year: We were in the work service and suddenly, a year later, the conscription order lay on the table. And that must be when I first realized: it is the Waffen-SS." Asked whether he had feelings of guilt, Grass answered: "At the time? No. Later on, this guilt feeling burdened me as a disgrace." It wasn't until he heard the testimony of Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach in the Nuremberg trials that he "believed that the crimes had actually taken place."

I think it entirely possible that Israel has no nukes and it could conceivably be all smoke and mirrors, much like the UK up to 1962, who had fewer than 30 'devices' (mostly Fat Boy style bombs that were hand made with no guarantee of functionality) and certainly no weaponised H-Bomb. Making bombs takes lots of energy the Manhattan project consumed as much electricity as the 5 largest US Corporations.

Here's what's 'known' not a great deal in reality.

 http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/israel/nuclear/

In early 1968, the CIA issued a report concluding that Israel had successfully started production of nuclear weapons. This estimate, however, was based on an informal conversation between Carl Duckett, head of the CIA's Office of Science and Technology, and Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb. Teller said that, based on conversations with friends in the Israeli scientific and defense establishment, he had concluded that Israel was capable of building the bomb, and that the CIA should not wait for an Israeli test to make a final assessment because that test would never be carried out.

CIA estimates of the Israeli arsenal's size did not improve with time. In 1974, Duckett estimated that Israel had between ten and twenty nuclear weapons. The upper bound was derived from CIA speculation regarding the number of possible Israeli targets, and not from any specific intelligence. Because this target list was presumed to be relatively static, this remained the official American estimate until the early 1980s.

The actual size and composition of Israel's nuclear stockpile is uncertain and the subject of many - often conflicting - estimates and reports. It is widely reported that Israel had two bombs in 1967, and that Prime Minister Eshkol ordered them armed in Israel's first nuclear alert during the Six-Day War. It is also reported that, fearing defeat in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israelis assembled 13 twenty-kiloton atomic bombs.

Israel could potentially have produced a few dozen nuclear warheads in the period 1970-1980, and is thought to have produced sufficient fissile material to build 100 to 200 warheads by the mid-1990s. In 1986 descriptions and photographs of Israeli nuclear warheads were published in the London Sunday Times of a purported underground bomb factory at the Dimona nuclear reactor. The photographs were taken by Mordechai Vanunu, a dismissed Israeli nuclear technician. His information led some experts to conclude that Israel had a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices at that time.

 http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/

"In 1986 descriptions and photographs of Israeli nuclear warheads were published in the London Sunday Times of a purported underground bomb factory at the Dimona nuclear reactor. The photographs were taken by Mordechai Vanunu, a dismissed Israeli nuclear technician. His information led some experts to conclude that Israel had a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices at that time."

Why on earth would you want to build nuclear weapons under a nuclear reactor!!!

If I had a nuclear reactor power station using other people bits, I wouldn't build a bomb under it. I don't know why but it just seems like a bad idea!!!

What if it went all bangy and smokey?