Category: Israel

  • Stolen Uranium: The Apollo, Pennsylvania NUMEC Affair

    A national-security theory centered on the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania, where hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium went unaccounted for during the 1960s. The theory holds that the material was covertly diverted into Israel’s nuclear weapons program, with later intelligence assessments and environmental evidence often cited as support for that conclusion.