Arild Aspøy is a Norwegian journalist, writer, director and editor. Aspøy has primarily been active as an investigative journalist and author.
Aspøy's articles on the black market in heavy water led Norway to stop the export of this material, which has contributed to the development of nuclear weapons in several countries. In a series of articles in VG, he showed that heavy water produced by Norsk Hydro had ended up in Indian nuclear reactors used for the production of nuclear weapons.[1][2] In 1983, heavy water was smuggled from Oslo to India using a German courier. The revelation led to an international investigation by the Norwegian Police Security Service.[3] Together with the disclosure by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that the same German black market operator had smuggled heavy water from Norway to the Ceausescu regime in Romania, Aspøy's exposé was a main reason that the export of heavy water from Norway was stopped.[4][5]
Aspøy developed this case further in his book Familiejuveler: Tungtvann, våpen og CIA (Family Jewels: Heavy water, weapons and the CIA; Cappelen, 1990). Here he shows how the smuggling of heavy water from Norway was carried out by an illegal global network that performed extensive smuggling of nuclear materials and weapons, sometimes in cooperation with intelligence agencies and authorities.
From 1993 to 2007, Aspøy was a director and journalist in the documentary division of NRK television. In 2011 he published the novel Fredsfyrster (Princes of Peace; Aschehoug), a thriller about an attempt to secure the Nobel Peace Prize.[6] The reviewer for the daily Verdens Gang (VG) referred to it as "One of this somewhat special fall's most interesting and successful Norwegian thrillers" and rated it 5 out of 6.[7]
Våpenhandlerne (The Weapons dealers): The relationship between defence chiefs and other officers and the defence industry (Brennpunkt, NRK, 1994)
Penger, politikk og påvirkning (Money, politics and influence): The shipowners' lobby's campaign for new tax legislation (Brennpunkt, NRK, 1996)
Vokt dem for hunden (Beware of Dog): Neighbors' resistance to an acute care institution for drug abusers in an affluent neighborhood on the west side of Oslo (Montebello) (Brennpunkt, NRK, 1997)
Bombekremmerne (The Bomb merchants): Norway sold plutonium plant to Israel (Brennpunkt, NRK, 1998)
Vi som støtter Amerika (We who support America): Three Norwegian sailors hired by the CIA during the prelude to the Vietnam War (Brennpunkt, NRK, 2000)
Selected books
Fredsfyrster (Princes of Peace). Novel. Aschehoug, 2011
Familiejuveler: Tungtvann, våpen og CIA (Family Jewels: Heavy water, weapons and the CIA). Cappelen, 1990
Kjæresten fridde på dopapir (The Boyfriend Proposed on Toilet Paper). Se og Hør and the battle for privacy. Aschehoug, 1995
Virkelighetskonkurransen (The Reality Competition). Scandals, techniques and dilemmas of modern television production. Høyskoleforlaget, 2000
References
^VG "Eks-Nazist lurte Hydro: Norsk tungtvann til India?" 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Verdens Gang, 21 April 1988 (in Norwegian)
^Michael R. Gordon, "Norway Is Missing Atom Arms Water", The New York Times, 5 May 1988.
^Sanjoy Hazarika, "Norway Details How Heavy Water Went to India", The New York Times, 7 May 1989.
^"P. M. BRIEFING: Norway Halts Heavy Water Export", Los Angeles Times, 13 March 1989.
^Sanjoy Hazarika, "Norway Planning to Ban Export of Heavy Water", The New York Times, 22 November 1988.
^Cathrine Krøger, "Farlig aktuell thriller om unge massemordere: Arild Aspøys 'Fredsfyrster' er skremmende realistisk, troverdig og anstendig", Dagbladet, 24 October 2011 (in Norwegian)
^"Thriller om fredsprisen: Det hemmelige spillet rundt Nobels fredspris og dragkampen bak er temaet i thrilleren Fredsfyrster" 7 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Verdens Gang, 6 October 2011 (in Norwegian)
January 30, 2023
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