George A. Cowan
American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute.
George A. Cowan was an American scientist who spent more than twenty years designing nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. He acknowledged that there was always a close association with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, who visited the labs. Cowan believed that the Israelis were smart enough to do their own research and that the need for secret information was largely promoted by spy novelists.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 15. ↩
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