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Raphael Ofek

Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Raphael Ofek, a BESA Center Research Associate, is an expert in the field of nuclear physics and technology who served as a senior analyst in the Israeli intelligence community.

Lockheed Martin recently registered a patent on a revolutionary design of a Compact Fusion Reactor, a mobile device small enough to be mounted on a truck. One version is designed to produce 100 megawatts—enough to power a city of 100,000 people.
The recent admittance of the Palestinian Authority to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons borders on the absurd. It has no access to chemical-weapons technology and is not threatened by them either.
The current nuclear threat to the United States comes from North Korea and, as in the 1970s and 1980s, America has difficulty collecting and assessing intelligence.