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Nuclear
USA
Department of Energy
Intelligence
VELA Satellite
Carter Administration

Donald M. Kerr, Jr. served in the Jimmy Carter administration as acting director of the defense programs at the Department of Energy, making him responsible for America's nuclear bombs. He directed the secret Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) study into the 1979 VELA Satellite sighting. Kerr stated that the NIP had no doubt it was a nuclear bomb and believed the Jack P. Ruina panel's mandate was driven by politics "to find a different explanation."1

Footnotes

  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 20. ↩︎