Stealing the Atom Bomb: How Denial and Deception Armed Israel

Within the mid Nineteen Sixties, a whole lot of kilograms of extremely enriched uranium went lacking from a nuclear gasoline manufacturing plant known as NUMEC in Apollo, PA. From the time the Atomic Power Fee first found that vital quantities of this atom-bomb-making materials have been lacking, there was a priority that it went to Israel due to the connection between the plant’s homeowners and Israeli nuclear and intelligence officers. Due to the enormously excessive stakes concerned, denial and deception have clouded the affair for half a century. Though the AEC, its successor company the Nuclear Regulatory Fee, the FBI, the CIA, the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Power, the Common Accounting Workplace, the Nationwide Safety Council, the Protection Intelligence Company, two committees of the U.S. Home of Representatives and 4 presidential administrations purported to research what grew to become of the uranium, they by no means discovered it. All of them acknowledged that the fabric may need made its solution to Israel, and a few in excessive place have been sure it went there, however, till not too long ago, proof was veiled in secrecy. This e-book brings collectively for the primary time not too long ago found private papers of the lead CIA agent, not too long ago declassified recordsdata of NRC, GAO, FBI and CIA, and interviews of U.S. authorities investigators. The creator is an engineer who led a 1977 NRC investigation of the affair that was thwarted by unwarranted secrecy and interagency bumbling. This e-book culminates years of analysis to get on the and set the document straight.