The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World by Michael Karpin

Author:Michael Karpin [Karpin, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, pdf
Tags: Israel & Palestine, General, Middle East, Military, Nuclear Warfare, History
ISBN: 9780743282345
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-03-01T04:12:18.498816+00:00

In September 1962, a private aircraft blew up in the sky over northern Germany. Its owner was a German middleman who supplied weapons and recruited technicians for Egypt. His wife died in the explosion.

In November 1962, Dr. Heinz Krug, forty-nine, disappeared in Munich. He was the director of an Egyptian front company called Antra that was linked to the development of the Egyptian missiles. His car was found abandoned, but he was never located.

At the end of November, Pilz’s German secretary at Factory 333 opened a letter bomb addressed to him that blew up and left her blinded, deaf, and facially disfigured.

The following day, a gift-wrapped package blew up at the same plant, killing the Egyptian scientist Michael Khouri and five Egyptian engineers who were in his vicinity. The parcel bomb was addressed to General Kamal Azzar, who was the Egyptian army coordinator for the German scientists’ work.

In February 1963, on a road near the town of Lörrach in southern West Germany, not far from the border with Switzerland, an assailant fired a pistol at Hans Kleinwachter, head of the guidance systems lab in Stuttgart, but missed.

For several months, German scientists received threatening letters at their Egyptian addresses. Some were sent letter bombs. The scientists’ families in Germany received threatening telephone calls.

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