Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that Israel is 'assumed' to have 200 nuclear weapons - a figure that Israeli officials and its allies have rarely, if ever, mentioned.
Blix, who was speaking in his new capacity as head of a Swedish organisation, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, said Thursday that a nuclear-free Middle East would be possible if states in the region, including Israel, rejected nuclear activities.
To date, Israeli officials have never discussed in public the breadth of their nuclear programme or their nuclear arsenal. The assumption has been that the programme exists.
But in Israel, Mark Regev, a spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign ministry, said, 'there has been no change in Israel's long standing position that we will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the region'.
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