The Bomb in the Basement

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Israel is the first (and so far, the only) nuclear power in the Middle East. In The Bomb in the Basement, Israeli journalist Michael Karpin explains when and how his country went nuclear…and how it kept its atomic program a secret.

Event: Michael Karpin will be speaking
Thursday, March 9th at 7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm
The American Jewish Committee
165 East 65th Street, at 3rd Avenue
Reservations: 212-891-6792

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