The Crisis in American Foreign Policy

Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist, author, and regular contributor to the New Yorker on topics of U.S. military operations and national security. In 2004 he broke the story of the U.S. military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, which he also covered in his book Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. His most recent New Yorker report, "Defending the Arsenal," questions the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and five George Polk Awards. His books include The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House; The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and America's Foreign Policy; The Dark Side of Camelot; and Against All Enemies: Gulf War Syndrome. Part of the World Affairs Series.