Mordechai Vanunu Quotes
"I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Day, Proof)
"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Building, Job)
"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Israel, Thinking, Weapons)
"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Music, Hearing, Opera, Singing, Spirit, Years)
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Israel, World)
"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: People, Israel)
"My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Job)
"I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Time, Control, Building)
"I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Crime, Public, Right)
"I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Nerves, Psychology, Sleep, Years)
"I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb."
- Mordechai Vanunu
"From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: People, Sea, Soldiers)
"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Country, Foreigners)
"I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Family)
"But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Freedom)