[prmph]

Nukes are not "illegal" There is nothing like legality around such things. But if you declare over and over that you want to wipe another nation off the map, then that nation sure would take notice when you work on developing nuclear weapons. It's simple really

[bigyabai]

Sure nukes can be illegal. Maybe not in international jurisdiction, but here in the US we have Federal U.S. Code 18 § 831 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

Which is somewhat salient when you consider how Israel actually got enriched uranium. It was straight-up stolen from NUMEC in the 1960s, and when the CIA found out about it they helped bury the story. If America actually cared about policing nuclear proliferation, they would have started with Israel.

Clearly, we don't care (and that should have been clear to us all since Reagan).

[prmph]

Please read my comment again. You will get a clue as to why the US was unconcerned about Israel, but is concerned about Iran.

[tguvot]

if you will read a wiki entry on apollo affair you will discover that loss probably was due to "what was called "previously unidentified and undocumented loss mechanisms", including "contamination of workers' clothes, losses from scrubber systems, material embedded in the flooring, and residual deposits in the processing equipment"

also, there was loss after shapiro left his position numec

[bigyabai]

And if you will read the wiki entry, you might notice that it only accounts for 110lbs of the 200lbs+ that went missing. It didn't come out in the wash, as a matter of fact the CIA detected the HEU's unique signature over at Dimona. Fancy it just flew there on the wind? Hitched a ride on a Congressman's jet leaving Haifa?