The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the Bomb
Yoel Cohen | | ISBN: 978-0-8419-1409-4 $24.95 |
| 2003/381 pages/LC: 92002032704 Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers |
DESCRIPTION
In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at Israel's highly secret nuclear arms research center at Dimona, disclosed highly classified details about Israel's nuclear arms program to the London Sunday Times. As a result, Vanunu was kidnapped from London and taken back to Israel where, after a closed- door trial, he was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment for espionage and treason.
Yoel Cohen draws on thousands of pages of court transcripts and on first-hand testimony to probe the lack of internal security that made the disclosures possible and to provide extensive details of the sometimes extraordinary deliberations at Vanunu's trial. He also examines the consequences of the Vanunu affair for Israel's intelligence community, as well as for the balance of power involving Israel and the Arab world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yoel Cohen is professor of mass communications at the Ariel University Center.
"For the first time, the background to the events surrounding Vanunu's disclosure is provided."—Focus
"Cohen has provided a comprehensive and excellent account of what Mordechai Vanumu actually did, but of the political and social background to the affair.... He also lays to rest a few ghosts."--Middle East International
"Cohen copes manfully with the questions, every conspiracy theory begetting another and every answer provoking further questions . . . [Cohen] has obviously done a lot of legwork and writes with authority."—Sunday Telegraph, London