For September, we're doing something different. Presenting, Unpacking Israeli History. Have you heard about Israel's secret nuclear weapons in Dimona? Yeah, we haven't either. In this episode, Noam digs deep into how Israel's not-so-secret nuclear program came to be, and asks, does the nuclear program make Israel safer?  ~~~~Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Sommer, and Jon and Rachie Teller.~~~~Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Teaching about this topic? Check out our relevant educator resources here: https://unpacked.education/unpacking-operation-solomon-30-years-later/~~~~Sourceshttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/066004008https://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/bosb/2010/bosb_66_4/066004008/20170817/images/large/10.2968_066004008-img2.jpeghttps://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/history/timeline/different/nuclear_deterrence.htmlhttps://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/The-Khrushchev-era-1953-64https://books.google.com/books?id=si1oUnk5N3QC&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttps://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-israel-war-of-independencehttps://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/18-1%20Seidman.pdfhttps://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israel-studies-an-anthology-israel-s-economy:https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cohen-israel.htmlhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Suez-Canalhttps://books.google.com/books?id=jGtVsBne7PgChttps://www.jstor.org/stable/30245572?seq=1https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/francehttps://fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/israeli-nuclear-programjfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/nuclear-test-ban-treatyhttps://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/israel/documents/reveal/index.htmlhttps://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-a-standoff-with-the-u-s-almost-blew-up-israel-s-nuclear-program-1.7193419?v=1623033435057https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=5983539-National-Security-Archive-Doc-04-Director-ofhttps://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10801564#:~:text=Eventually%2C%20a%20U.N.%2Dbrokered%20ceasefire,heavily%20populated%20Palestinian%20West%20Bank.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenalhttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/world/middleeast/29nixon.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/7/newsid_3014000/3014623.stmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/international/middleeast/israeli-who-revealed-nuclear-secrets-is-freed.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenalhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/the-point-of-no-return/308186/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/select-quotations-of-david-ben-gurion~~~~Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media