《SPYING ON THE BOMB AMERICAN NUCLEAR INTELLIGENCE FROM NAZI GERMANY TO IRAN AND NORTH KOREA》

1: A terrifying prospect : Nazi Germany17

2: Lightning strikes : the Soviet Union 1945-195362

3: The view from above : the Soviet Union 1954-1961105

4: Mao's explosive thoughts : the People's Republic of China through 1968137

5: An elated general, a smiling Buddha : France and India through 1974195

6: "Pariahs" : Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan through the 1970s236

7: The double flash : the Vela incident : September 1979283

8: Rogues : Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and Pakistan though 1991317

9: "Pariahs" revisited : Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in the 1980s and early 1990s360

10: Big bangs : French and Chinese testing; suspected Russian testing in the 1990s401

11: Pokhran surprise : Indian and Pakistani tests in May 1998427

12: Inspectors and spies : Iraq from the end of the Gulf War through December 1998447

13: Flawed intelligence : Iraq, 1999-2004470

14: Trouble waiting to happen : Iran and North Korea, from the 1990s to today503

Abbreviations and Acronyms545

Acknowledgments549

Notes551

Index673