Jammu, June 26 -- In an extraordinary twist of fate, the very aircraft that bombed Iranian nuclear sites on June 22 - the U.S. Air Force's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber - carries with it a dark legacy tied to a man born in Mumbai, India. Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia, once hailed as a brilliant mind behind the B-2's revolutionary stealth propulsion system, ended up betraying not one but two nations: his country of birth, India, and his adopted homeland, the United States. The fruits of his treason? China's leap in stealth missile technology - technology that may one day be turned against democracies themselves.
Gowadia, a Parsi prodigy born in 1944, had achieved academic feats in India by his teens and moved to the U.S. at 19. He quickly ascended A...