Israel’s nuclear role amid war with Iran

Israel not only developed its nuclear weapons in secret – employing subterfuge, misleading claims, and even the suspected theft of bomb-grade nuclear material from the United States – it has also rejected international inspections of its facilities and refused to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed by almost every state in the world. Iran, meanwhile, has never had a nuclear weapon, though its programme has been the source of international concern for more than a decade.