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See also Yosef Vanunu. 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 ...
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. He ...
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 ...
Mordecai. Mordecai ( / ˈmɔːrdɪkaɪ, mɔːrdɪˈkeɪaɪ /; [ 1] also Mordechai; Hebrew: מָרְדֳּכַי, Modern: Mŏrdoḵay, Tiberian: Mārdoḵay, [ a] IPA: [moʁdeˈχaj]) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described in Tanna Devei Eliyahu as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of ...
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.
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 ...
Production company. Griffin Productions. Original release. Release. 1990. ( 1990) Secret Weapon is a 1990 American-Australian film. [1] It is the true story of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed to the world his country's nuclear weapons capabilities.
Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 [ 1][ 2] – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. [ 3]