Spying On The Bomb Pa

by Richelson,Jeffrey T.

• ISBN13: 9780393329827
• ISBN10: 0393329828
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Who has the bomb? And what could they do with it? Spying on the Bomb is a global history of the American-led effort to spy on every nation with nuclear ambitions from the Cold War to today, including North Korea and Iran. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
A Terrifying Prospect: Nazi Germany	p. 17
Lightning Strikes: The Soviet Union 1945-1953	p. 62
The View from Above: The Soviet Union 1954-1961	p. 105
Mao's Explosive Thoughts: The People's Republic of China through 1968	p. 137
An Elated General, a Smiling Buddha: France and India through 1974	p. 195
"Pariahs": Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan through the 1970s	p. 236
The Double Flash: The Vela Incident: September 1979	p. 383
Rogues: Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and Pakistan through 1991	p. 317
"Pariahs" Revisited: Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in the 1980s and early 1990s	p. 360
Big Bangs: French and Chinese testing; suspected Russian testing in the 1990s	p. 401
Pokhran Surprise: Indian and Pakistani tests in May 1998	p. 427
Inspectors and Spies: Iraq from the end of the Gulf War through December 1998	p. 447
Flawed Intelligence: Iraq, 1999-2004	p. 470
Trouble Waiting to Happen: Iran and North Korea, from the 1990s to 2005	p. 503
Epilogue: Iran and North Korea, 2006-2007	p. 545
Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. 569
Acknowledgments	p. 573
Notes	p. 575
Index	p. 705
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