@IAMAL_PHARIUS @stoner713 @professionalbigot69 israel definitely has nuclear warheads. it was a major headache for the us from the time of kennedy (lol) to nixon. off topic, saudi does too. also, israel has publicly proven delivery methods, as their ICBM platform has been used for sat delivery. if you can do that, you can drop it back down with a payload.
simulated tests being just as good are a massive bet on the part of nuclear powers. the margins involved for time differential in fusing charges, criticality pressures, casing deflections and the like are disgusting. nuclear weapons are monuments to precision engineering and they don't get tested for a lifetime. the eggheads say it's just as good, but also their jobs are dependent on saying that