Thomas C. Reed

Tom Reed began his career doing physics and hydrodynamics at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It Edward Teller's words, "Tom Reed was one of Livermore's most creative designers of thermonuclear devices." Two of his designs were fired over the Pacific in 1962. Earlier he had graduated from Cornell as an engineer, then from graduate school at the University of Southern California. During the Ford and Carter years Reed served as Secretary of the Air Force and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. With the end of the Cold War, Reed turned his attention to documenting the history of those times in his At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, followed by The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation. His new history-based thriller, The Tehran Triangle infers one possible end game for Iran's current nuclear ambitions. Reed lives in the wine country of northern California with his wife Kay and sheep dog Amy.

What others are saying about The Tehran Triangle:

“The Tehran Triangle, a new page-turner by Air Force Secretary Thomas C. Reed (Ford and Carter administrations) with Sandy Baker, says we are looking at the wrong continent for Iran’s nuclear eruption. . . . In Triangle, a young, radicalized, second-generation American-Iranian couple is recruited to build a bomb outside El Paso, Texas. The other vertices of the triangle are Juarez and Tehran. A fast-moving CIA agent unravels the plot. . . . The end of an era is near.

Arnaud de Borchgrave, author of number 1 best-seller, The Spike, in NewsMax, May 2, 2012

"The Tehran Triangle is a harrowing tale about Iran's quest for the bomb. The story feels real; it could have been written by an intelligence insider and a nuclear weapons expert. And it was. Reed brings his expertise and deeply felt convictions about Iran home. He projects a credible end game for Iran's nuclear ambitions."

James Schlesinger

Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission,

Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy

"The Tehran Triangle is a fast-paced thriller about the frightening perils of the nuclear age. Tom Reed brings to the story a lifetime of experience in national security, delivering a narrative that is crackling with imagination yet woven from the grim threats of our time."

David Hoffman

Former Foreign Affairs Editor, the Washington Post

Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold War history author, The Dead Hand

"There are contesting groups within Iran. Mr. Thomas Reed has written an excellent chronicle of these struggles, and I have learned a lot from his writings. I recommend them to you."

Ardeshir Zahedi

Iran's Foreign Minister, 1966-1973

"Tom Reed enjoyed a catbird seat to history and has done us all a great favor by taking time to record what he saw and heard."

George H. W. Bush

41st President of the U.S and former Director of Central Intelligence