Act of conscience.(Excerpt)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: September 17, 1999| Author: SPIRO, GIDEON | Copyright information

Israeli Mordechai Vanunu blew the whistle on his country's nuclear secret

This article is an excerpted version of Gideon Spiro's contribution to the book Vanunu and the Bomb, published recently in Israel (in Hebrew). Spiro is an Israeli journalist and peace activist.

It is impossible to speak of the prisoner of conscience Mordechai Vanunu without speaking of Israel's recent history and the ideas that guided his action.

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