Isolation and Proliferation: Israel, America, and the South African Nuclear Weapons Program

Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an Editor for International Opinion at the New York Times Op-Ed page, based at the International New York Times office in London. He is responsible for assigning pieces on foreign policy, national security and international affairs. Before moving to the New York Times in early 2011, he was a senior editor at Foreign Affairs from 2007 - 2011.Mr. Polakow-Suransky’s articles have appeared in The American Prospect, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Haaretz, The New Republic, and South Africa’s Weekly Mail & Guardian. His book, "The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa" (Pantheon, 2010) focused on the clandestine military and nuclear cooperation between the Israeli government and the South African apartheid regime during the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr. Polakow-Suranksy holds a bachelor’s degree in history and urban studies from Brown University and an D.Phil in modern history from Oxford University (St. Antony’s College), where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 2003–2006.