Global Nuclear Power: Israel
Israel has possessed nuclear weapons since 1967.
They currently have a stockpile of approximately 90 nuclear warheads.
While Israel does not publicly acknowledge its own possession of nuclear weapons, Former Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu said that a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was an option in the Israel-Hamas war.
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The 2022 Nuclear Notebook on Israel, which is published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and research provided by the Federation of the Atomic Scientists.