| Event | Year |
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| Start of Israeli-France coop.; arms sales, Uranium and Heavy Water start being produced from the Negev desert | |
| US-Israel Peaceful coop.agreement; Nachel Soreq reactor, Canada builds Indian CIRUS reactor | |
| IDF surveys the Negev desert, Israeli scientists are invited to French Saclay Nuclear Centre | |
| US begins inspections of Dimona on back of JFK's personal letters to Ben Gurion and Eshkol | |
| Latest potential date the Dimona reactor goes critical | |
| UK intelligence believes Israel has a weapons programme, David Ben Gurion gets snubbed by the White House | |
| France withdraws from NATO command structure, UK sells 20 tonnes heavy water to Israel via Norway | |
| 'Full scale' nuclear weapons productions after 6-Day War, CIA believes that Israel can produce a weapon in 6-8 weeks | |
| Israel signs up to Atoms for Peace and strikes Dimona deal with France | |
| | Event | Year |
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| End of Dimona inspections, September: Nixon-Meir meeting, denial of Israeli weapons by US against media claims | |
| March: Eshkol-Komer memo | |
| Construction of Dimona begins, De Gaulle becomes French Prime Minister | |
| Newspapers reveal Israel's nuclear programme; confirmed by John McCone (U2 flights); Ben Gurion claims peaceful programme | |
| David Ben-Gurion becomes Israeli Prime Minister | |
| Earliest potential date that Dimona reactor goes critical | |
| End of cooperation agreement with France, earliest claim that Israel posses a weapon | |
| Mossad buys 200 tonnes of uranium ore from Belgian mining company, US National Intel. Assessment believes Israel has nuclear weapons | |
| Protocol of Sevres | |
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