16 lines
No EOL
791 B
Markdown
16 lines
No EOL
791 B
Markdown
---
|
|
tags:
|
|
- Person
|
|
- Government Official
|
|
- Nuclear
|
|
- USA
|
|
- Department of Energy
|
|
- Intelligence
|
|
- VELA Satellite
|
|
- Carter Administration
|
|
---
|
|
Donald M. Kerr, Jr. served in the [[Jimmy Carter|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|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. |