Michael Karpin has been a television and radio news reporter and anchor in Israel for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World. Karpin is coauthor of Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill YitzhakRabin. He has also produced documentaries, including A Bomb in the Basement, which has been shown on Canadian, European, Moroccan, and Israeli television. His documentary The Road to Rabin Square was screened by TV networks in fifteen countries and won prizes at leading international film festivals.