A letter from 29 lawmakers calls on the U.S. to expose Israel’s weapons program, which it doesn’t acknowledge and was built in secret beginning in the late 1950s.
May 5, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. EDT51 minutes ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in 2024. (Pete Kiehart/For The Washington Post)
A group of House Democrats is urging the Trump administration to publicly acknowledge Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program, a move that would abandon decades of U.S. policy but confirm what has been an open secret among intelligence officials since the late 1960s.
