Israeli police have arrested the British reporter who exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program 20 years ago when he secured an exclusive interview with nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu. In the article in the Sunday Times of London, Vanunu exposed details confirming that Israel had a secret nuclear weapons program. This led Israel to the arrest and imprisonment of Vanunu for 18 years. He was released a month ago. Now Israel has arrested the journalist behind the piece, Peter Hounam, who traveled to Israel more than a month ago ahead of Vanunu’s release and was working on a documentary for the BBC about the nuclear whistleblower. The government has placed a gag order on all information about his arrest. According to the London Independent, Hounam’s arrest only became known to the public because Hounam was briefly able to break away from the arresting officers to tell someone in his hotel what happened. He grabbed the hair of a female guest in the hotel lobby to get her attention and said “tell people, tell The Sunday Times that I am being arrested”. Hounam’s lawyer said “The man was arrested without reason, out of a ceaseless security obsession with Vanunu.” The arrest may have come because the Sunday Times is planning to run this weekend the first major extensive interview with Vanunu since his release.