I still wonder why my faded memories still contain various International Press releases made in the early 90ies concerning the selling of entire nuclear warheads by desintegrating soviet military staff. I remember news like "Transfer of nuclear missile heads" from the former USSR to Iran. This means that today Iran has not yet a capablity to build its own nucelar warheads with hom made plutonium. But for some reasons there is nobody reminding the possibility that Iran is having already several nuclear devices made from recycled components of former soviet forces nuclear missiles. I guess that dealing more and more harshly with Iran as an arrogant rogue State "still trying" to get hold of nuclear capabilities by producing its own plutonium is still "acceptable" to the normal citizens mind.. A kind of limited risk in case of war.. but if the news would remind the other option that Iran has now "only" a few nuclear weapons which they are not yet able to produce completely allone.. than the risk to attack that country with military means could appear "too risky" for the average citizen whoms support is now still somehow requested in the media support of the ongoing preparations to stop Iram from gaining even more nuclear capabilities.

MORDECHAI VANUNU Israel is widely believed to be the sixth country in the world to develop nuclear weapons[5] and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the others being India, Pakistan and North Korea.[6] International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei regards Israel as a state possessing nuclear weapons,[7] but Israel maintains a policy known as "nuclear ambiguity" (also known as "nuclear opacity"). Israel has never officially admitted to having nuclear weapons, instead repeating over the years that it would not be the first country to "introduce" nuclear weapons to the Middle East, leaving ambiguous whether it means it will not create or will not use the weapons. Israel began investigating the nuclear field just one year after its 1948 founding and with French support secretly began building a nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant in the late 1950s. Although Israel first built a nuclear weapon in 1967-68, it was not publicly confirmed from the inside until Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician, revealed details of the program to the British press in 1986. Israel is currently believed to possess between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads with the ability to deliver them by intercontinental ballistic missile, aircraft, and submarine.[2]