Stealing the Atom Bomb: How Denial and Deception Armed Israel

by Roger J. Mattson

In the mid 1960s, hundreds of kilograms of highly enriched uranium went missing from a nuclear fuel manufacturing plant called NUMEC in Apollo, PA. From the time the Atomic Energy Commission first discovered that significant amounts of this atom-bomb-making material were missing, there was a concern that it went to Israel because of the connection between the plant's owners and Israeli nuclear and intelligence officials. Because of the enormously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515083918
• ISBN13: 9781515083917
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"