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Former US president Carter covered up Israeli nuclear weapons test, declassified documents suggest
A mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb explosion

FORMER US president Jimmy Carter covered up a nuclear weapon test by Israel in 1979, declassified reports have suggested.

His administration feared that making the discovery public would damage his bid for re-election.

US satellite’s picked up a “double flash” signal associated with a nuclear explosion in the South Indian ocean in September 1979.

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