Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore
Actually, the only ones I've ever heard call him a traitor before are our very own right-wing nutters(and I mean real nutters, they'd make the republicans look like lefties).

Anyway Adrian, you support the notion that countries should have the right to develop nuclear bombs in complete secrecy? You don't consider it your right to know when your government is making weaponry that can wipe out the population of the earth...?

National security can go to hell on that one. If my government is doing something like that, I see it as my bloody right to know so.

Calling Vanunu a threat to national security is about as ridiculous as calling the guy who exposed Abu Ghraib a threat to national security.
The Israeli public and the outside world have been aware since the early 1960's that Israel was developing nuclear weapons. Not only has the Israeli public fully incorporated this knowledge, it has also been aware since the early 1970's of Israel's declared policy of 'nuclear opacity' which was deemed to be in its best interest at the time. And yes, Israel has every right to develop such weapons. And yes, they already helped save the country once from annihilation.

Do you know how that came about? And if it was before or after Vanunu's revelations?