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Israel may be planning to attack with a tactical nuke, expert warns Sultan Barakat, a professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, has warned that Israeli and US rhetoric suggests Israel could be planning a nuclear attack.
βI think there may be a surprise for everyone, such as a tactical nuclear attack by Israel in a limited way, just to allow Israel to come out as a nuclear power,β Barakat told Al Jazeera.
βThis aligns with the wording that Trump has been using βΒ that this is going to be a βbig surpriseβ, βkilling civilisationβ β that sort of rhetoric,β he said.
Israel has never officially acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons, yet it is widely understood that the country maintains a nuclear capability.
βTheyβve had [nuclear capabilities] and theyβve been using it as a form of deterrence, but that did not work. They ultimately got attacked β and attacked severely β by Iran, and this was not the first time,β Barakat said.
Tactical nuclear weapons pack less explosive power and are designed for battlefield use.
βI think now, in their own minds, [Israel] think they need to come out as a nuclear power, but they need to demonstrate it in a limited way β and in a way that does not have a major fallout across the region, so that itβs there but not too devastating,β Barakat said.
The White House has denied that the US has any plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran.