An investigation into Israel's nuclear capabilities discloses information about the country's rush toward nuclear status, its collaboration with South Africa and Iran, and its espionage activities.

Seymour M. Hersh has written for the New Yorker and the London Review of Books, as well as served as a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism more than four decades ago with an exposé of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Since then he has uncovered stories such as Kissinger's role in extending the Vietnam War as well as the military torture regime at Abu Ghraib prison. He has won the George Polk Award five times, the National Magazine Award for Public Interest twice, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.