Countdown to crisis : the coming nuclear showdown with Iran / Kenneth R. Timmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timmerman, Kenneth R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Iran.

Nuclear weapons.

Military policy.

Iran.

Iran--Military policy.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

World politics--1995-2005.

World politics.

World politics--21st century.

Physical Description:

392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Forum, [2005]

Summary:

In his chilling new book, New York Times bestselling author Kenneth R. Timmerman blows the lid off the greatest threat America faces: a nuclear-armed Iran that is closely allied with international terrorists-and bent on destroying us.

Using his exclusive access to previously classified documents, Iranian defectors and officials, and high-level sources in the U.S. government and intelligence community, Timmerman reveals that the Iranian nuclear program is far more advanced than we've feared. Countdown to Crisis also uncovers the Iranian Islamist regime's extensive-and ongoing-support for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Perhaps most frightening, Timmerman documents how our intelligence community's arrogance, incompetence, and willful blindness have repeatedly kept us from dealing with the Iranian threat. Aand now it could be too late.

To get the complete story on Iran's radical Islamic regime, Timmerman crisscrosses the globe, taking the reader into secret terrorist gatherings in Tehran, into tense meetings in the White House, to debriefings at an obscure CIA outpost in Azerbaijan, to diplomatic face-offs in the Kremlin, and to many other spots along the way. His extensive investigative reporting allows him to lay bare the true nature of the Iranian threat.

For Americans interested in the truth about Iran, Countdown to Crisis may amount to a call for action-or even a case for war.

Contents:

Prologue: What if the Ayatollah Got the Bomb? 1

1 The Defector 7

2 The Intercept 19

3 The Hijacker 27

4 Atomic Ayatollahs 35

5 The Exiles 47

6 The Missile Man 58

7 The Blind Swede 66

8 The Germany Syndrome 73

9 Betrayal 88

10 Lifting the Stone 97

11 The Visitors 103

12 Loose Nukes 119

13 Red Light, Green Light 135

14 The Partners 152

15 The Penetration 166

16 Thunder 183

17 The Countdown Begins 197

18 The President, the Leader, and the Murderers 208

19 The Students 218

20 October Surprise 225

21 The Warnings 236

22 The Rat Line 250

23 Nukes "R" US 254

24 The Evidence 268

25 Showdown 281

26 The Way Ahead 300

Epilogue: The Price of Failure 315

Appendix The Evidence 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1400053684

OCLC:

58986386