- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; 2nd Revised edition edition (18 Jan 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571168191
- ISBN-13: 978-0571168194
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 496,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book tells how Israel became a secret nuclear power, recounting Israel's clandestine nuclear mission: from the building of the Dimona reactor site in the remote Negev desert during the late 1950s, to the establishment by the late 1970s of a nuclear capability that targeted and threatened the USSR. The author tells of Israel's many secret agreements with America over the years, including the KH-11 satellite agreement which aided the bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, and the recruitment of Jonathan Pollard, Israel's first nuclear spy. He also reveals the truth behind Mossad's kidnapping of Mordecai Vanunu - the Israeli technician who broke the story of the Dimona reactor to the "Sunday Times" in 1986, only to be abducted in Rome and taken back to Israel to face trial. The book discloses how Vanunu was betrayed to the Israelis - and by whom. Seymour Hersh is the journalist who broke the prize-winning story of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam in 1969, and who wrote "The Price of Power", an account of Kissinger's years in the Nixon White House.
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This is a very good book detailling how Israel became a nuclear power (unnofficially!). Although it is written from a fairly critical point of view, it tells the story well, and is some interesting reading. There are bits in it where the 'story' lulls a bit, and becomes a bit boring, but this is more than made up for by the content of the rest of the book.
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