How strange. Where could they have possibly gotten the technology and hardware of the US under JFK was preventing them from developing nukes? During the Cold War no less, when any country that helped the USSR was considered an enemy of free-dumb?
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-us-discovery…
Supposedly its was mostly thanks to French hardware and reactors, and Norweigen heavy water.
Dimona has still never been inspected by the IAEA as Israel never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty