CONTENTS
Nazi Germany
The Soviet Union 1945–1953
The Soviet Union 1954–1961
FOUR: MAO’s EXPLOSIVE THOUGHTS
The People’s Republic of China through 1968
FIVE: AN ELATED GENERAL, A SMILING BUDDHA
France and India through 1974
Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan through the 1970s
The Vela Incident: September 1979
Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and Pakistan through 1991
Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan in the 1980s and early 1990s
French and Chinese testing; suspected Russian testing in the 1990s
Indian and Pakistani tests in May 1998
Iraq from the end of the Gulf War through December 1998
Iraq, 1999–2004
FOURTEEN: TROUBLE WAITING TO HAPPEN
Iran and North Korea, from the 1990s to 2005
Iran and North Korea, 2006–2007