Peter Hounam

Peter Hounam (* 1944 ) is a British journalist and author . He worked for the London Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times and other newspapers. His main focus is the nuclear armament of Israel .

As the chief reporter for the Sunday Times, Hounam worked with Mordechai Vanunu . In 1986 information and photographs from the nuclear weapons program at the Dimona Nuclear Research Center were published . Vanunu was lured to Italy with the help of Mossad agent Cheryl Ben Tov and from there was deported to Israel and imprisoned. Hounam tracked down the agent in the United States and interviewed her.

In 1995, Hounam released The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare. , which shows the development of the South African atomic bomb with the help of various states, including Israel.

The Israeli attack on the NSA - spy ship USS Liberty during the Six-Day War in 1967 saw Hounam in his book Operation Cyanide: Why the bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III as an attempted excuse the US and Israel, Cairo with US Attack nuclear bombs.

In 2004, Hounam was briefly arrested in Israel. Hounam was interviewed extensively in the TV documentary Israel and the Bomb , broadcast in 2012 .

Fonts

• Secret Cult. with Andrew Hogg, 1985, ISBN 0-85648-837-2
• The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare. together with Steve McQuillan, Viking, 1995, ISBN 0-670-86925-2
• Who Killed Diana? together with Derek McAdam, 1998, ISBN 1-901250-17-2
• The Woman from Mossad: The Torment of Mordechai Vanunu . 2000, ISBN 1-58394-005-7
• Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III. 2003, ISBN 978-1-904132-19-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Haaretz ( online )