Excellent circa-1991 overview of the Israeli nuclear weapons program and the labyrinthine intrigues involved on both Israeli and US sides to keep it an open-secret.

Hersh does an outstanding job plumbing out the details on stuff that often and deliberately had no bureaucratic memory, so each group of analysts were starting from scratch and totally unaware of the others. There was quite a bit of infighting between people trying to report accurate information vs the people who found it more convenient to ignore it, so there were plenty of wounded bureaucrats as sources. This even is true on the Israeli side, where the debates about these were carried on outside of public view, so a lot of unresolved grievances there from the winners and losers.

The overall picture is pretty damning of Israel as an essentially rogue state, one willing to make common cause with other apartheid states and funnel intelligence from and to anyone who can give them an edge. Maybe we shouldn't give them billions of dollars a year!