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global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War
II origins to today's threats from rogue states.
For fifty years, the United States has monitored friends and
foes who seek to develop the ultimate weapon. Since 1952 the
nuclear club has grown to at least eight nations, while others
are making serious attempts to join. Each chapter chronologically
focuses on the nuclear activities of one or more countries,
intermingling what the United States believed was happening
with accounts of what actually occurred in each country's
laboratories, test sites, and decisionmaking councils. Jeffrey
T. Richelson weaves recently declassified documents into his
interviews with the scientists and spies involved in the nuclear
espionage. The book reveals new information about U.S. intelligence
work on the Soviet/Russian, French, Chinese, Indian, Israeli,
and South African nuclear programs; on the attempts to solve
the mysterious Vela Incident; and on current efforts to uncover
the nuclear secrets of Iran and North Korea. The book also
includes spy satellite photographs never before extracted
from the national archives.
Jeffrey T. Richelson is a senior fellow at
the National Security Archive and author of The Wizards
of Langley, The U.S. Intelligence Community,
A Century of Spies, and America's Secret Eyes
in Space. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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