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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the process of evaluating Iran's nuclear project and the efforts to roll it back, resulting in the 2015 nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA). Despite its aura of scientific exactitude, nuclear intelligence is complex and susceptible to methodological disagreements and political bias at the international oversight levelthe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)and within the countries involved in the rollback project Israel and the United States.To highlight both the technological problems of assessing compliance and the politicization, each chapter in the book uses a real-time comparison of the nuclear developments in Iran, and the perception of Israel and the United States. This methodology yielded some significant results. Essentially, two camps had formed in each country; those who were pushing for an agreement with Iran and those who opposed it.The Israeli intelligence agencies the Mossad and the Military Intelligence as
Trade ReviewSeliktar and Rezaei’s book . . . is quite rich in detail about the longstanding controversy surrounding the Iranian nuclear weapons programme. For those individuals who are interested in learning how the controversy over this programme has played out within Iran, Israel and the United States, as well as how it has played out on the international stage, this book will be of very considerable value. * Israel Affairs *
Table of ContentsAbbreviations Chapter 1: The Theory and Practice of Nuclear Intelligence Chapter 2: Under the Radar: Iran's Nuclear Project Takes Off Chapter 3: The Great Deception: The Nuclear Project in the Age of the Dialogue of Civilization Chapter 4: Blowing the Cover of Iran’s Nuclear Project: Whose Intelligence Matters? Chapter 5: Iran’s Nuclear Principalism: Challenging the NPT Chapter 6: The Cost of Principalism: Bankrupting Iran Chapter 7: The Power of Sanctions and the Road to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Conclusions: The Complex Case of Iran’s Nuclear Intelligence Bibliography About the Authors
