201310 03 - 40 Years On | In 1973, Dayan Suggested Israel Prepare Nukes for Action, but Golda Meir Refused

After decades of rumors and speculation, it turns out that the nuclear aspect of the Yom Kippur War was much more an internal Israeli matter than a strategic move, according to the Wilson Center, the Washington, D.C., research institute.

Some raised the issue while others sought to bury it, but it seems not to have made it into the office of the chief of staff or the prime minister’s bureau.

The only channel between then-Prime Minister Golda Meir and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger went through Washington rather than through the pleasant but largely irrelevant American ambassador to Tel Aviv at the time, Kenneth Keating.

Simha Dinitz, then Israel’s ambassador to Washington, later stated that the nuclear issue never came up in his many talks ... you need to pay for reading.