Today’s Briefing: The Apollo Affair The Apollo Affair alleges Israel acquired nuclear weapons by stealing U.S. material. NUMEC, a U.S. company processing enriched uranium, was led by Zalman Shapiro—a Zionist Jew and rumored to be Ben Shapiro’s uncle—with deep Israeli ties. Starting in 1965, over 700 lbs of uranium vanished unexplained, enough for 200 warheads. NUMEC sent frequent uninspected shipments to Israel, visited by Mossad’s Rafi Eitan (later Pollard handler). In a related 1968 Mossad op