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Spying on the Bomb

I bought Jeffrey Richelson’s Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea.

The book is amazing, particularly the chapter dedicated to the 1979 “flash” over the South Atlantic that may have been a nuclear test.

The National Security Archive, where Richelson is a Senior Fellow, has placed online some of the supporting documents related to the French and South African nuclear programs.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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