For his work in exposing the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear weapons program, he was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize by former Swedish deputy Prime Minister Per Ahlmark.

To raise awareness of the threat from the Islamic regime in Iran, and the potentially tragic gaps in U.S. intelligence in spotting and tracking these threats, he wrote Honor Killing, a sizzling thriller set on the next battlefield in the war on terror, which has been featured by national talk radio hosts Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Frank Gaffney, and others. Honor Killing tells the story of how Iranian terrorists bring a nuclear weapon into the United States under the noses of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence watchers, blinded by political correctness to the threats from a Fifth Column of Muslim immigrants.

 In 1998, he tracked renegade Saudi financier Osama Bin Ladin and his international terrorist network halfway across the globe for Reader's Digest, publishing his expose on the then-unknown Saudi just weeks before he attacked two U.S. embassies in Africa. (Bin Laden was so obscure at the time that the Digest couldn't even find a photograph of him, using an artist's sketch instead).

Over the past 20 years, he has revealed how failed U.S. policies have helped create new threats to our nation from Russia, China, and Iran

His book on Iran, Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown in Iran, was acclaimed by former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission. 

In April 1983, he was the first U.S. correspondent on scene when the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon was blown up by Islamic militants.

During the later half of the 1980s, he covered the Iran-Iraq war, gaining first-hand knowledge of Iraq's deadly weapons buildup. His third book, The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq (Houghton Mifflin, 1991) was called "our Bible" by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, chief of the UN Special Commission for the Disarmament of Iraq. After the Gulf War, Ekeus and his weapons inspectors used Timmerman's information to help locate clandestine Iraqi weapons plants and to identify their foreign suppliers.

A ground-making study on the unconventional weapons programs of Iran, Libya, and Syria, commissioned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in 1992, won applause from Democrats and Republicans alike.
 

In presenting the report to the public, famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal told one audience: "I have spent my life tracking down the murderers of yesterday. Mr. Timmerman is tracking down the murderers of tomorrow."

After the first Gulf War, Timmerman assisted a veterans group in a class action lawsuit against the German companies who helped build Saddam Hussein's deadly chemical weapons, which may have contributed to Persian Gulf War Syndrome.

Today, he is helping families of the victims of the September 11 attacks prepare a class action lawsuit against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, because of its direct, material involvement in the al Qaeda plot to attack America, a story he detailed in Countdown to Crisis and in several news stories that can be found here.

During this time, he also has worked to strengthen America's greatest export of all: democracy as a Congressional aid and a human rights activist.

In 1995, along with Peter Rodman, Joshua Muravchik, and a group of Iranian patriots, he established the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI).

The Foundation has served as a rallying point for Iranian democrats seeking an end to brutal, clerical rule in Iran, and has helped keep Congress and the public informed of ongoing repression and support for terrorism by Iranian "moderates" as well as hard-liners led by the Supreme Leader, President Ahmadinejad, and the IRGC's Qods Force. Ken has also been in the forfront of warning Congress and the public of the dangers of an unofficial pro-Tehran lobby here in the United States.

Ken has has traveled far and wide to meet with Iranian dissidents, and to encourage them in their efforts to bring freedom to their troubled land.

He is reputed to have interviewed more defectors from Iranian  intelligence services than any living member of the U.S. intelligence community, and has helped  protect dissidents from deportation back to Iran, where they would face certain arrest. Countdown to Crisis is now being used as part of the Iran course material by the Pentagon's Joint Counter Intelligence Training Academy (JCITA).

Timmerman's work as an investigative reporter has won consistent praise for its accuracy and courage. Many of the stories about the Clinton administration's high-technology giveaway to Communist China started with pieces he wrote for The American Spectator, including an expose of influence peddling in the Pentagon under then Secretary of Defense William Perry. 

He has presented his findings before Congress in public testimony and in Special Reports commissioned by various committees. "Many of the facts Ken first reported were confirmed to me and my colleagues in classified briefings,"wrote  Rep. Christopher Cox, chairman of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, in a preface to Ken's book on Chinagate, Selling Out America.

The blue ribbon Commission To Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (the Rumsfeld Commission) incorporated many of his suggestions in its final report in April 1998, which concluded it was in America's interest to deploy a national missile defense.

Since 1987, Timmerman has operated Middle East Data Project, Inc., a small business that has provided investigative support and policy guidance to government agencies and private companies on three continents.

He has served as an expert witness in more than a dozen international  lawsuits and government prosecutions involving terrorism, high-tech exports, and political refugees, and was cited more than a dozen times in the final report by Argentinean prosecutors in the 1994 AMIA bombing case.

Timmerman has briefed a wide variety of U.S. government agencies on issues relating to Iran, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Army War College, the Lawrence Livermore National Nuclear Laboratory, as well as many members of Congress.

As a contributing editor for Newsmax Media, he examined new security measures at U.S. ports in the fall of 2005.

In the summer of 2006, returned to northern Israel to report on the 2nd Lebanon war, where

he witnessed the evacuation of virtually the entire northern third of israel under Hezbollah rocket fire, and the destruction of Israeli towns. villages, forests, and hospitals.

Since then, he has made several trips to Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq to report on the plight of Iraqi Christian refugees. In addition to his news and commentary articles on the persecuted church, he has briefed Congress, human rights groups, and churches on his findings. St. Peter's Bones draws heavily from these most recent trips.

He and his wife live in Maryland and have five children.