Shopping for Bombs
Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 October 2009
- ISBN 9780195375237
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 236x158x22 mm
- Weight 455 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 black and white illustrations 0
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Long description:
A.Q. Khan was the world's leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as "at least as dangerous as Osama Bin Laden." Here for the first time is the riveting, inside story of the rise and fall of A.Q. Khan and his role in the devastating spread of nuclear technology over the last thirty years. Drawing on exclusive interviews with key players in Islamabad, London, and Washington, as well as with members of Khan's own network,
BBC journalist Gordon Corera paints a truly unsettling picture of the nuclear arms bazaar. Corera reveals how Khan operated within a world of shadowy deals amongst rogue states and how his privileged position in Pakistan protected his unique and deadly business empire. Brimming with revelations, the
book provides new insight into Iran's nuclear ambitions, how the CIA and MI6 penetrated and ultimately broke Khan's network, and how they persuaded Pakistan's President to arrest a national hero. The book also illuminates the high-wire dealings with Muammar Gadaffi which led to Libya's renunciation of nuclear weapons.
interesting and revealing.
Table of Contents:
Taranto?October 2003
Introduction
Part I: Rise
Roots
The Bomb
Natanz?February 2003
Iran?From Import to Export
Chagai Hills-May 1998
North Korea?Pyongyang and Back
Jordan?August 1995
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Part II: Fall
Picking up the Trail
Washington, DC?September 2001
Watching
London?March 2003
Dealing with Gadaffi
New York?September 2003
Confronting Musharraf?Dealing with Khan
Kuala Lumpur?November 2003
Unraveling the Network
Epilogue: The Spread
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
