Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast interview with Grant F. Smith, author most recently of *Divert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons program* (Institute for Research, 2012). The book is about the sordid history of Israel having stolen highly enriched uranium from a plant in Pennsylvania for use in its first nuclear bombs. It's not proven but it's not just speculation, either. As Grant puts it, there's no smoking gun but the scene of the crime is littered with shell casings. If you're interested, the good news is that a very large number of original documents are available online.
Readers of *Divert* benefit also from an epilogue by Col. Pat Lang -- who, once he became a civilian, rose in the Pentagon's senior executive service, managing intelligence products, to where his final protocol equivalent rank was Lieutenant General. Getting such an endorsement is a real coup! Hopefully, *Divert* will help inspire further investigations… As always, if you like the podcast please forward the link. http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2012/03/the_numec_affair.html -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
