IDF Home Front Command soldiers wearing chemical protection gear participate in a drill simulating a chemical missile attack in July 2009. Sources in Damascus warned that an Israeli strike on Syrian chemical weapons depots will prompt their use in an non-conventional war. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90)
Exclusive: Does Israel Have Chemical Weapons Too? -- Foreign Policy
One secret CIA file may have the answer.
Syria's reported use of chemical weapons is threatening to turn the civil war there into a wider conflict. But the Bashar al-Assad government may not be the only one in the region with a nerve gas stockpile. A newly discovered CIA document indicates that Israel likely built up a chemical arsenal of its own.
It is almost universally believed in intelligence circles here in Washington that Israel possesses a stockpile of several hundred fission nuclear weapons, and perhaps even some high-yield thermonuclear weapons. Analysts believe the Israeli government built the nuclear stockpile in the 1960s and 1970s as a hedge against the remote possibility that the armies of its Arab neighbors could someday overwhelm the Israeli military. But nuclear weapons are not the only weapon of mass destruction that Israel has constructed.
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My Comment: The CIA appears to believe that Israel also has a chemical weapons program.
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