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Mordechai Vanunu (Hebrew: מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1954), [1] also known as John Crossman, [2] [3] is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist [4] who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. [5]
Vanunu's photograph of a Negev Nuclear Research Center glove box containing nuclear materials in a model bomb assembly, one of about 60 photographs he later gave to the British press. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu , a former technician at Dimona, fled to the United Kingdom and revealed to the media details of Israel's nuclear weapons program.
The first extensive details of the weapons program came on October 5, 1986, with media coverage of revelations from Mordechai Vanunu, a technician formerly employed at the center. Vanunu was soon kidnapped by the Mossad and brought back to Israel, where he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason and espionage. [34] [35]
Fred Schepisi is set to direct Israel-based thriller “The Dimona Affair,” Variety has learned exclusively. The project is based on the story of a whistleblower who claimed Israel was building ...
Vanunu is ethnic Mizrahi Jew, born in Marrakesh Morocco, having emigrated to Israel, following its independence in 1948, like many of the North African Jewish community did. Amnesty International issued a press release on 2 July 2007, stating that "The organisation considers Mordechai Vanunu to be a prisoner of conscience and calls for his ...
Military Cross. Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak -born British media proprietor, politician, fraudster, and the father of the convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. [ 1][ 2] After escaping the Nazi occupation of his native country, Maxwell joined the ...
Mordechai Vanunu: Male Israeli nuclear weapons program: Revealed Israel's clandestine nuclear program to the British press. He spent seventeen and a half years in prison as a result, the first eleven of these in solitary confinement. After his release, sanctions were placed on him: among others, he was not allowed to leave Israel or speak to ...
Peter Hounam. Peter Metcalfe Hounam (born 1944) [ 1] is a British journalist who has worked for Sunday Times, Daily Mirror, the London Evening Standard, and BBC Television, as well as having published several books. In 1996, Hounam founded Vision Paperbacks, of which he is the chairman.