Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest For The Atom Bomb - Couverture rigide

Venter, Al J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1932033335 ISBN 13 : 9781932033335

Editeur : Casemate Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Non-proliferation Treaty
•Questions why and how the Islamic Republic of Iran eluded
the West in its quest for the atom bomb
•Exposes the extraordinary amount of trafficking in illegal nuclear
materials which involves dozens of countries

The United States remains convinced that Tehran has been pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program. As one observer noted, “following some pretty intrusive detective work by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in late 2003 and early 2004, everything points to Iran acquiring nuclear weapons parity within the next few years.” The consensus within the nuclear club is that that target is likely to be reached sooner rather than later.

That revelation emerged in October 2003 when Tehran - after almost a year in denial following ever more thorough inspections by the IAEA - admitted that it had secretly been producing small quantities of weapons-grade uranium as well as plutonium. Although Tehran initially agreed to allow inspections by the IAEA it then reneged a few weeks later. What is clear, said The Washington Post at the time, is that the world now faces its own Iranian deadline.

Jerusalem has already hinted that if the West allows a similar situation to develop in Iran as the international community faced in Iraq prior to 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', then it might be forced to act unilaterally. As one Knesset member phrased it, “we need to stop the rot.”

Al Venter, the author of The Iraqi War Debrief: Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled deals with Hizbollah, an Iranian surrogate terror group that has tentacles stretching well beyond the eastern Mediterranean and, by inference, with al-Qaeda. The question now facing observers in the West is how much more of this kind of nuclear proliferation has been secreted by Tehran's mullahs. Al Venter is available for interview.

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À propos de l'auteur

Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer and has had 50 books published. He started his career with Geneva’s Interavia Group, then owners of International Defence Review, to cover military developments in the Middle East and Africa. Venter has been writing on these and related issues such as guerrilla warfare, insurgency, the Middle East and conflict in general for half a century. He was involved with Jane’s Information Group for more than 30 years and was a stringer for the BBC, NBC News (New York) as well as London’s Daily Express and Sunday Express. He branched into television work in the early 1980s and produced more than 100 documentaries, many of which were internationally flighted. His one-hour film, 'Africa’s Killing Fields' (on the Ugandan civil war), was shown nationwide in the United States on the PBS network. Other films include an hour-long program on the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as 'AIDS: The African Connection', nominated for China’s Pink Magnolia Award. His many books include Africa: In the Line of Fire (2023) and Portugal's Bush War in Mozambique (2022), both by Casemate Publishers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Casemate Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1932033335
• ISBN 13: 9781932033335
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible