Shimon Peres said Mordechai Vanunu deserved to have his movement restricted for exposing secrets of Israel’s nuclear program. “Vanunu violated accepted norms and betrayed his country,” Peres, considered the father of Israel’s atomic program, told Army Radio on Tuesday.
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