For twelve years Mohamed ElBaradei negotiated every key nuclear confrontation of our time. Dealing with the nuclear aspirations of Libya and North Korea, standing up to the Bush administration on Iraq, and managing the West's turbulent stand-off with Iran, the mild-mannered Egyptian lawyer emerged as the one independent, objective voice, unique in maintaining credibility in the Arab world and the West alike. Now, for the first time, he tells the story of what really happened behind the scenes, and assesses the threat that nuclear weapons continue to pose to our future.