Nuclear Testing
Israel may have conducted an underground test in the Negev in 1963. On November 2, 1966, the country may have carried out a non-nuclear test, speculated to be zero yield or implosion in nature. On 22 September 1979 Israel may have been involved in a possible South African nuclear bomb test also known as the Vela Incident in the southern Indian Ocean.
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