..." (Sheftelowitz, p. 34, etc.). -- "One throws the entrails upon the roofs or in the yard, from where the birds are able to bear them away" (Moses Isserles). The ritual-slaughtering forms the core purpose of the ceremony, and therefore the pouring out of the blood of the victim! According to the testimony of the Syrian Jewess Ben-Noud, in the Jewish families of her native country the Kapporah-hen was tormented...

... with the wings nailed down and in a thousand ways before the ritual-slaughter by long needles, nails, and the like, under horrid curses. Ben-Noud says further: "If they (382) could crucify a non-Jew instead of a rooster, their joy would be all the greater...the most timid Jews display the wildest fanaticism on this occasion." [12] Antonius Margaritha, the son of the Chief Rabbi Margoles of Regensburg...

... means of quills and small "Röhrle" [tubes] and collected into bottles. Likewise collected in bottles was the blood of the three-and-a-half-year-old Russian nobleman's son, who had bled to death on Good Friday 1753 in the vicinity of Kiev under [the knife of] his schächter...The Jewess Ben-Noud found a large brass vase in the house of relatives, "which the Arabs call a laghen," totally filled with...

... present understood what was meant by that... Lazarus Goldschmidt cites a passage of the Talmud tract of the Schabbath, where an "emperor" asks the Rabbi Joshua ben Chananya why the Jewish Sabbath meal has such a pleasant aroma. The Rabbi answers: "Because we (412) have a spice by the name of Sabbath that we put in!" The "emperor" also wants to have some of it, but the Rabbi says: "It is only proper for...

... dead shortly thereafter: the one had been slain [outright], the other had been poisoned...(Lyutostanski, p. 20). 1827 In Warsaw Jewish constables kidnapped a non-Jewish child shortly before the Jewish Easter (Chiarini, Theoria del Giudaïsmo, Volume I, p. 355). 1827 At about the same time the seven-year-old Jewess, Ben-Noud, born in Aleppo, saw from the roof of the house of her relatives in Antioch...

... the fifth. The guilty parties were merely banished (Henri Desportes, le myst. du sang., p. 91).(61) 1834 The Jewess Ben-Noud, who later converted to Christianity, was a witness in Tripoli when an old man was lured into an ambush by several Jews and hung up by his toes from an orange tree. They let their victim hang in this position for several hours. In the moment when the old man was near death...

..., the Jews cut him through the neck with a ritual slaughter knife and left the body hanging until all the blood was collected in a basin. Ben-Noud learned later than the murderers had packed the body into a crate and had cast it into the sea. She confessed to the Orientalist Count Durfort-Civrac this fact besides, that the Jews mix the blood into the unleavened Easter bread (mossa = matzos) and this...

... further and irrefutable proof of the existence of Jewish Ritual Murder are the numerous Jewish confessions. They come from trials, voluntary statements and from confessions by former rabbis. The confessions were made in two court cases. One of them took place in Trent in 1475, and the other one in Damascus in the years 1840 - 1842. The voluntary statement was made by the young Jewess Ben Noud who made...

... murderers were transported to Siberia. Monniot says the facts of this case were not contested. (Henri Desportes, Le myst. Du sang) 1834. According to the testimonyof the Jewess Ben Noud who converted to Christianity, an old gentile man in Tripoli was tied up by 4 or 5 Jews and hanged froman orange tree by his toes. At the moment when the old man was close to death the Jews cut his throat with a butcher...

... The Jewess Ben Noud: Ben Noud, born in Aleppo, confessed to the Orientalist, Count Durfort-Civrac, that at the age of seven (in 1826) she traveled from Lattakia to Antioch, and there, while staying in a Jewish home she witnessed the Jews hanging two Christian children from the ceiling by their feet. One of the children was about five and the other around twelve years old. Frightened by this...

...-million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet." (Rabbi Reichorn, speaking at the funeral of Grand Rabbi Simeon Ben-Judah, 1869, Henry Ford also noted that: 'It was a Jew who said, 'Wars are the Jews' harvest'; but no harvest is so rich as civil wars.' The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, Vol. III, p. 180) The history of the Jews is written...

... spectacle, she ran to her aunt and told her what she had seen. The aunt laughed at her and explained that it was probably only two naughty boys being punished. To get her mind off of it, Ben Noud's aunt sent her to the "Bizaar." When she returned the two bodies had disappeared, but she noticed a brass vase on the floor, which the Arabs call "laghen," completely filled with blood. The Confessions of The...

... confessions were made in two court cases. One of them took place in Trent in 1475, and the other one in Damascus in the years 1840 - 1842. The voluntary statement was made by the young Jewess Ben Noud who made it to the French Count Durfort-Civrac. The confessions were made by the following rabbis who truly converted to Christianity: Drach and Goschler, Fra Sifto of Siena, Paolo Medici, Giovanni da Feltre...

... were five judges, of whom four recognized the ritual character of the murder. The Jewish murderers were transported to Siberia. Monniot says the facts of this case were not contested. (Henri Desportes, Le myst. Du sang) 1834. According to the testimonyof the Jewess Ben Noud who converted to Christianity, an old gentile man in Tripoli was tied up by 4 or 5 Jews and hanged froman orange tree by his...

... child. Typical examples of Ritual Murder at Passover are: The Confession of The Jewess Ben Noud: Ben Noud, born in Aleppo, confessed to the Orientalist, Count Durfort-Civrac, that at the age of seven (in 1826) she traveled from Lattakia to Antioch, and there, while staying in a Jewish home she witnessed the Jews hanging two Christian children from the ceiling by their feet. One of the children was...

... about five and the other around twelve years old. Frightened by this spectacle, she ran to her aunt and told her what she had seen. The aunt laughed at her and explained that it was probably only two naughty boys being punished. To get her mind off of it, Ben Noud's aunt sent her to the "Bizaar." When she returned the two bodies had disappeared, but she noticed a brass vase on the floor, which the...

... doesn't, it tacitly condones Israel's war of extermination against the Palestinians. -- Greg Felton, Israel: A monument to anti-Semitism "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." -- David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel 1948-1963, 1948-05, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography...

..., by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978. "... The bitter irony is that the same biological and racist laws that are preached by the Nazis and led to the Nuremberg trials, formed the basis of the doctrine of Judaism in the State of Israel." -- Haim Cohan, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Israel "Do not be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish - annihilate them. Evil...

.... There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" -- David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel 1948-1963, 1948-06 "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was...

... a bottle." -- Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." -- Golda Meir, March 8, 1969. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." -- Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, June 15, 1969 Ben Gurion also warned in 1948: "We must do everything to insure...

... say? What matters is what the Jews do!" -- David Ben Gurion, the first ruler of the Jewish state "The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle" -- Quotes by Jewish Rabbis "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire." -- Ehud Olmert, acting Prime Minister of Israel 2006- "The Partition of...

... its legitimacy." -- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel 1969-1974, Le Monde, 1971-10-15 "If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country." -- David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel 1948 -1963, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99 "I would have joined a terrorist organization." -- Ehud...

... a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." -- David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel 1948-1963, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978. "The establishment of such a school is a foul, disgraceful deed...

... Palestinian ones." -- Ehud Olmert, acting Prime Minister of Israel 2006- 2006-06-23 "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people. It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist." -- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel 1969-1974, Statement to The Sunday Times, 1969-06-15 "We must expel Arabs and take their places." -- David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel 1948...

...-1963, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985. "It must be clear that there is no room for both peoples in this country. If the Arabs leave the country, it will be broad and wide-open for us. If the Arabs stay, the country will remain narrow and miserable. The only solution is Israel without Arabs. There is no room for compromise on this point. The Zionist enterprise...

... Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, in 1972. (Cited in Nur Masalha's A land Without A People 1997, p98). "We walked outside, Ben Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, 'What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" -- Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1974-1977 and 1992-1995, leaked Rabin memoirs, published in the New...

... Arabs: Get out! If they don't agree, if they resist, we shall drive them out by force." -- Professor Ben-Zion Dinur, Israel's First Minister of Education, 1954, from History of the Haganah Requests have been made to Wikileaks representatives for Assange to make a public statement as to accusations as far as the deal with Israel goes. So far, there is no such a s statement. Wikileaks makes a statement...

... a process of mass immigration. . Israeli leaders of all parties, from the extreme Right to the extreme Left, including Premier Ben-Gurion, have begun to demand that American Jews, and particularly Zionists, redeem their pledges to the ancient homeland, leave their American 'exile', and settle in Israel, or at least send their children there. . . The Jerusalem Congress marked officially the end of...

... opposition to all programmes designed to transform Jews into a nationalist bloc with special interests in the foreign state of Israel. The policy laid down by Mr. Ben-Gurion for American Zionism encourages Zionists to intensify their efforts to organize American Jews as a separate political pressure-block in the United States. This programme is designed to transform American Jews into a spiritual and...

... ghettoes, alarmed Mr. Zukerman and Mr, Rosenwald. They express the greatest ambition ever proclaimed by any state in history, and the Premier, a Mr. Ben-Gurion from Russia, was explicit about it on many occasions, for instance in his message of June 16, 1951 to the Zionists of America: "A rare opportunity has been given to your organization to pave a way for a unifying and united Zionist movement...

... which will stand at the head of American Jewry in the great era opened to the Jewish people with the establishment of the state and beginning of ingathering of exiles". Rabbi Hillel Silver, President Eisenhower's close associate, expressed particular gratification that "Mr. Ben-Gurion now accepts the view that main tasks of the Zionist movement, as heretofore, include the full and...

... undiminished programme of Zionism", In New York in June, 1952 Mr. Ben-Gurion was more explicit: "The Jewish state is not the fulfilment of Zionism. . ,Zionism embraces all Jews everywhere". Israel's second president, Mr. Ben Zvi, at his inauguration in December 1952, said, "The ingathering of the exiles still remains our central task and we will not retreat . . . Our historic task will...

... immigration and sees the necessity ofall Jewish communities uniting for this purpose". A permanent state of "anti-semitism" in the world is obviously the pre-requisite for the realization of this law, and as the largest single body of Jews in the world is now in America, an "anti-semitic" situation there would evidently have to be declared at some stage in the process. 516 Mr. Ben...

... to his country and calling. His perfidy first became public knowledge on this occasion when Mr. Ben-Gurion, dedicating a children's village on Mount Carmel to Wingate's memory (he was killed during the Second War) said "He was ready to fight with the Jews against his own government" and at the time of the British White Paper in 1939 "he came to me with plans to combat the British...

... background of "fulfilment" (the payment of tribute by the great nations of the world and the declaration that all Jews of the world were its subjects) the new state gave earnest of its intention to restore the "historic frontiers" by word and deed. No Western "warmonger" ever used such words. Mr. Ben-Gurion proclaimed (Johannesburg Jewish Herald, Dec. 24, 1952) that Israel...

.... These intimations meant another world war within fifteen years at the latest, for by no other means could so many Jews be extracted from the countries where they were. As to the cost of their transportation, Mr. Ben-Gurion said this would be between 7,000 and 8,000 million dollars (at present rates, equal to the entire national debt of Italy, and about five times the British national debt in 1914) and...

... 1955). In this same month of September 1955 Mr. Ben-Gurion in an interview said that he would attack Egypt "within a year" (the attack came in October, 1956) if the blockade of the Israeli port of Elath on the Gulf of Aqaba were not lifted. The United Nations Security Council seemed nervous about "censuring" this new attack (the American presidential election campaign was...

... and Syria and of Israel's obligations under the Charter" and undertook "to consider what further measures" it should take if Israel continued so to behave. The response to this was imperious Israeli demands for more arms. Mr. Ben-Gurion (at Tel Aviv, Mar. 18, 1956) said that only early delivery of arms could prevent "an Arab attack" and added that "the aggressors would...

... be the Egyptian dictator, Nasser" (seven months earlier Mr. Ben-Gurion had undertaken to attack Egypt "within a year") "together with his allies, Syria and Saudi Arabia". On April 5, 1956, as the UN Security Council was about to send its Secretary General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjold, on a "peace mission" to the Middle East, Israeli artillery bombarded the Gaza area...

..., killing 42 and wounding 103 Arab civilians, nearly half of them women and children. On June 19 Mr. Ben-Gurion dismissed Mr. Sharett from the Foreign Ministry in favour of Mrs. Golda Myerson (now Meier, and also from Russia) and the 522 New York Times significantly reported that this might denote a change from "moderation" to"activism" (Mr. Sharett, like Dr. Weizmann and Dr. Herzl...

... list of raids and massacres to give the later reader the true picture of the Middle East in the autumn of 1956, when Mr. Ben-Gurion declared that Israel was "defenceless" and the politicians of Washington and London were competing with each other in the demand that Israel receive arms to ward off "Arab aggression", If the accumulated pile of resolutions which at that time lay on...

... deceitful tongue be found in their mouth.'"(6) "The Talmudic writers," this article continues, "say that ' ... only Israelites are men' ... Gentiles they classed not as men but as barbarians."(7) Rabbi Johanan ben Zakki says that if anyone teaches the Talmud to a Gentile, "such a person deserves death."(8) Judah ben Illai recommends the daily recital of the benediction: "Blessed be thou ... who has not...

... methods."(13) The Talmud's homicidal hatred of Gentiles leaps from its pages. The Jewish Encyclopedia quotes one of the Talmud's most respectable rabbis, Simeon ben-Yohai: "The best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed."(14) How Relevant is Talmud to Jews Today? How relevant to Jews today is such medieval bloodlust? The majority of Jews in America have probably never read the Talmud or even heard of...

... Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai. For most of assimilated American Jewry, Judaism involves support of Israel and left-wing causes, but possesses a largely social, not spiritual, obligation.(15) But in New York and especially Israel, it is very different. Today in Israel, during the annual festival of Lag Ba Omar, tens of thousands of orthodox Jews assemble in Meron, the traditional burial place of Simeon ben...

... Yohai, where they honor his memory through song, dance, and exhortation. The prestigious Encyclopedia Judaica describes ben Yohai as one of the giants of Judaism for all time.(16) Far from being outdated, ben Yohai's call to slaughter the "best of the Gentiles" is the Talmudic text that authorizes Israel's policy of killing innocent Arabs, including children. A government manual for modern Israeli...

... soldiers includes a summary of Ben Yohai's teaching: "In war when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakah to kill even good civilians, that is civilians who are ostensibly good."(17) The Talmud clearly does more than dehumanize Palestinians. It also dehumanizes the educated and religious Jews who are guided by its homicidal racism. The Talmud is the scalpel that...

... for their anti- Christian, pro-hate law agenda. This poll shows 32% belong to Conservative Judaism, and only 10% are Orthodox. The high figure of Reform support contradicts the popular notion that ADL/B'nai B'rith represents a tiny left-wing minority. 16. "Simeon ben Yohai," Encyclopedia Judaica 17. Booklet published by the chaplain of the Israeli army, Central Region Command. Quoted in Dr. Israel...

... (Disraeli). 165. Beamish. Major Tufton. 420. Beaty. Prof. John O. 266. 272. Begin. Menachem. 463. 464. 519. 520. 524. Belgion, Montgomery. 401. Belloc, Hilaire. 342. Belshazzar, King. 36-39. 109. 162. 278. 279. Benesh, Edouard. 323. Ben-Gurion. 486. 513. 515-519. 521. 523. 525. 543. 549. 550. 556. 559. Benjamin (Biblical). 46. Benjamin, Hilde. 421. 501. Bennett, F.W. 545. Bennike, General Vagn. 533...

.... 384. 389. 391. 392. 407. 423-427. 429-432. 434. 442. 465. 470. 471. 474. 475. 480. 515-517. 529. 535. 536. 544. 549. 551. 560. 563. Chuter, Rev. James. B. 377. Cicero. 112. 113. Clardy, Kit. 497. Clark, General Mark. 367-370. Clemenceau. 289. Clifton, Brigadier G. 453. 454. Clootz. 151. Cobbett, William. 152. Cohen, Ben V. 299. 317. Cohen, Myer. 437. Collins, Wilkie. 186. Connell, Brian. 204...

.... Hamilton, Alexander. 156. 157. 165. 192. 212. 272. Hammarskjold, Dag. 521. Hannegan, Robert. 440. 441. Harding, President. 301. Harmsworth, Alfred (Lord Northcliffe). 295. Harriman, Governor. 538. 539. Hart, Captain Liddell. 396. Haycraft Commission. 304. Hazani. Michael. 565. Head, Anthony. 566. Hearst. Randolph. 295. Hecht, Ben. 472. 475. 477. 482. Helphand, Dr. 358. Henderson, Lord. 468. Henderson...

..., Holman. 184-187. 189. 190. Hurwitz. 511. Hutchinson. Cmdr. E. 522. 533. Hutchinson, Dr. Paul. 487. Hyrcanus, John. 54. Ibn Saoud. King. 292. 337. 338. 378. 424. 426. 427. 444. Isaiah. 33-35. 110. Ishbosheth. 7. Islington, Lord. 301. Israel, Rabbi Manasseh ben. 121. 122. Israel, Michel Boas. 184. Izzat. Ibrahim. 548. Jabotinsky, Vladimir. 513. 516. Jacob. 397. Jacob-called-Israel. 6. 52. Jacobson, Rabbi...

.... Jogiches, Leo. 416. John, St. 60. 71. Johnson, Dr. 93. Johnson, Herschel. 443. Joly, M.C. 169. 209. 210. 213. Jordan, King of. 519. Jordan, Major George Racey. 362-365. Joseph (Biblical). 6. Joseph, Dr. 461. Joseph, King of Khazars. 117. Joseph, St. 60. Joseph, Saadya ben. 103. Joshua. 101. Josiah. 22. Judah. 6. 46. 60. Judas Iscariot. 6. 17. 67. 276. 396. Juranitsch, Oskar. 408. 409. Kadar, Janos. 509...

..., Cardinal.505-507. Yellin. 463 Yeo-Thomas, Wing-Cmdr. 407. 409. York, Archbishop of. 520. Yurovsky, Yankel. 277. Zevi, Sabbatai. 103. 187. 193. 205. 282. 434. Zinovieff. 276. Zonarias. 103. Zukerman, William. 489. 490. 512. 515. 516. Zvi, Ben. 515.   Previous · Home http://iamthewitness.com/books/Douglas.Reed/The.Controversy.of.Zion/ What are you going to do about it? Your browser does not...

... and High Priest of Jerusalem, 50,000 were killed on both sides before this Sadducean ruler succumbed, and his widow Salome turned affairs over to the Pharisees in 79 B.C. Her brother, Simon ben Shetah, had been waiting for such an opportunity. The continued civil war resulted in the sons of Alexander Jannaeus, Hyrcanus and Aristobulus, in 63 B.C., going hat in hand to Pompey, Caesar's Roman General...

... thereupon exclaims: "Happy art thou Ben Dama for thou wert pure in body and thy soul likewise left thee in purity ... ." His joy was because, of course, it was preferable to die of snakebite than to be healed by a Christian. (Talmud, Abodah Zarah 27b, see Exhibit 187) Jesus and the High Priest's Privy The Talmud tale is told that, because of talking to a Christian Disciple of Jesus, a Rabbi is...

... respect." Then the above Rabbi Eliezer lie is used as a compliment!: "Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, one of the most orthodox of the sages, offered high praise to an interpretation of Scripture given by an early Christian" (Aboda Zara l7a). This is the self-same libel on Christ! More Lies to Fool Us At the time the Jewish Encyclopedia was published in 1905 there was no English translation of the Talmud...

.... Concerning the above anti-Christian "snakebite" story from the Talmud, the Encyclopedia then states (Exhibit 267 herein): "Ben Dama, a nephew of Rabbi Ishmael, having been bitten by a snake, allowed himself to be cured by means of an exorcism uttered by the min Jacob, a Judaeo-Christian." Does not this one series of circumstances once again illustrate how amazingly correct Christ was in designating the...

..., Sanhedrin 43a-45b (Exhibit 46 and Exhibit 48); Sanhedrin 67a (Exhibit 75), where under another phony name (Ben Stada) Jesus is identified as "Jesus of Nazareth." See Jewish Encyclopedia, Exhibit 277 and Exhibit 8. As to Judas, we are told (Exhibit 279) that: "when Judas found he could not touch Jesus in any way, in aerial battle, he defiled him" (the "privy concept", once again, which runs through the...

... Republic of China Mao Tse Tsung is funded by Rothschild Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: Jerusalem aspires to become the spiritual center of the world 1950 As planned by the Rothschilds', every nation involved in World War 2 greatly multiplied their debt, bringing them further and further under Jewish control James Paul Warburg: "We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it" The...

... David Ben-Gurion oversees a project of genocide of Sephardic Jews via massive radiation overdose of their children directly to their head. At least 6,000 die shortly afterwards Congressman John Rankin on Jews: "They whine about discrimination. Do you know who is being discriminated against? The white Christian people of America, the ones who created this nation" 1953 Dwight Eisenhower is referred to...

... Coe, a leading official of the Rothschild owned IMF. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: Jerusalem aspires to become the spiritual center of the world In December 16th's Jewish Chronicle, Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, is quoted with the following statement, "Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel and world Jewry; it aspires to become the spiritual center of the world." 1950 As...

..., which will go on to terrorize the world, is formed. The Mossad soon takes control of its' American arm, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The motto of the Mossad is probably the most disturbing secret service motto in the world. It is, "By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War." 1952 David Ben-Gurion oversees a project of genocide of Sephardic Jews via massive radiation overdose of their children...

... directly to their head. At least 6,000 die shortly afterwards Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion oversees a project in which a generation of Sephardic Jews in Israel are weeded out from their Ashkenazi counterparts at school and, to avoid suspicion by the parents, these Sephardic children are then taken on, "school trips." On these supposed, "trips," they actually receive a radiation treatment...

... Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset American/Egyptian relations. Israeli defence minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Pinhas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lies with David Ben-Gurion. This is the first known use of Jews who look like Arabs, being used by the Jews to...

... as United States President. Kennedy made it quite clear to Israeli Prime Minister that under no circumstances would he agree to Israel becoming a nuclear state Another, and probably the primary, reason for Kennedy's assassination is, however, the fact that he made it quite clear to Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, that under no circumstances would he agree to Israel becoming a nuclear...