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Netflix should make this into a movie or series. Plenty of good material to draw from: this heist, assassinating Iranian scientists with magnetic bombs on motorcycles [1][2] and Stuxnet [3].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/11/iran-nuclear-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxne...

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One could make a similar series about the Soviets stealing from the US.[0] Maybe not so dramatic, though.

Or about Israelis stealing from the US.[1]

0) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spies-who-spilled-ato...

1) https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/11/how-israel-stole-the-b...

I think “The Americans” is basically just that. Great series.

And then there's Jack Barsky.[0] It's a heartwarming story.

See this picture of him with his German and American children.[1]

Decent book too: Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

0) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38846022

1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/thought-smarte...

Given that there will be people insisting that the main objective of the program was nuclear power, not weapons, a show like that would be risky. Does Netflix want their shows accused of glorifying murder? I'm aware that there is the argument, perhaps with evidence, that Israel was halting weapons research aimed at them, but Netflix may not want to take the risk that the debate goes against them.

> Does Netflix want their shows accused of glorifying murder?

There are plenty of Netflix shows that glorify murder already. The Punisher comes to mind.

There's no reason why the show would have to glorify murder or be otherwise partial to Israel.

Maybe those people should read the quoted article.

Last week, at the invitation of the Israeli government, three reporters, including one from The New York Times, were shown key documents from the trove. Many confirmed what inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, in report after report, had suspected: Despite Iranian insistence that its program was for peaceful purposes, the country had worked in the past to systematically assemble everything it needed to produce atomic weapons.

Have you seen Netflix? Many many many shows exclusively about murderers :-)

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