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||1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
||1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."


||1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
||1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)

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