The Whistleblower Who Exposed Israel's Nuclear Weapons

PETAKH TIKVA, ISRAEL: Israel's former nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu flashes the "V" for victory sign 11 November 2004 at Petah Tikva court. Vanunu, who was freed in April after 18 years in an Israeli prison for revealing the country's nuclear ambitions, was re-arrested today at an east Jerusalem hotel, police said. Vanunu is suspected of having communicated "secret information to foreigners" and of having violated the restrictions imposed on him by Israeli security services after his release from prison, police said.

Vanunu was kidnapped in Rome in 1986 after releasing whistleblower data and photos confirming that Israel was secretly in possession of nuclear weapons