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==Undeclared nuclear states==

Countries believed to have at least one nuclear weapon, but that have not officially admitted to the possession of nuclear weapons.

[[Image:Vanuunu-Article.jpg|thumb|245px|On [[October 5]], [[1986]], the [[United Kingdom|British]] newspaper ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' ran [[Mordechai Vanunu]]'s story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."]]

*{{flagicon|Israel}} '''[[Israel and weapons of mass destruction|Israel]]''' is not a member of the [[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]] and refuses to officially confirm or deny having a nuclear arsenal, or to having developed nuclear weapons, or even to having a nuclear weapons program. Israel has pledged not to be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the region, but is also pursuing a policy of [[strategic ambiguity]] with regard to their possession. In the late 1960s, Israel Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin informed the United States State Department, that its understanding of "introducing" such weapons meant that they would be tested and publicly declared, while merely possessing the weapons did not constitute "introducing" them.<ref>Avner Cohen and William Burr, "-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042801326_pf.html The Untold Story of Israel's Bomb]," ''Washington Post'', [[April 30]], [[2006]]; B01.</ref> Although Israel claims that the [[Negev Nuclear Research Center]] near [[Dimona]] is a "research reactor", no scientific reports based on work done there have ever been published. Extensive information about the program in Dimona was also disclosed by technician [[Mordechai Vanunu]] in 1986.