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America and the Islamic bomb : the deadly compromise / David Armstrong and Joseph Trento.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.P18 A76 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstrong, David, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear nonproliferation.
- Technology transfer.
- Military policy.
- Nuclear weapons.
- History.
- United States--Foreign relations--Pakistan.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Pakistan.
- Pakistan--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- Khan, A. Q. (Abdul Qadeer), 1936-2021.
- Khan, A. Q.
- Nuclear weapons--Pakistan--History--20th century.
- Pakistan--Military policy.
- Technology transfer--Islamic countries.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--Political aspects.
- Nuclear terrorism.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- David Armstrong and Joseph Trento provide a new and unrivaled perspective on the so-called A.Q. Khan nuclear black market scandal, including exclusive accounts from customs agents, intelligence analysts, and other ground-level, front-line operatives. Documented in these pages are maddening experiences of official interference and breathtaking instances of indifference and incompetence. Trento and Armstrong name names and reveal stunning new information about proliferators in an expose that is sure to generate headlines. This secret history of how the Islamic bomb was developed and how nuclear arms have proliferated is as fascinating as it is disturbing.
- Over the past three decades, official investigations in the United States and Europe came close on several occasions to pulling the lid off Pakistan's nuclear smuggling network. But to protect strategic relationships with Islamabad, those inquiries were scuttled by intervention at the highest levels of government. The opportunities to roll up the network were lost and the spread of nuclear technology continued.
- Suggestions by President George W. Bush and members of his administration that the Khan case is a success story would be laughable if the implications were not so dire. Many of the Khan network's operatives remain free and live openly in Europe, Asia, and even the United States. The underground trade in nuclear technology continues, and the opportunities for terrorists to get their hands on atomic weaponry are expanding. Many in Pakistan's military, intelligence, and scientific communities are closely allied with the Taliban and al Qaeda, groups that US policy in the years before 9/11 helped foster. The lure of profits, combined with ideological, religious, and ethnic loyalties creates conditions for potentially deadly cooperation between those with access to nuclear technology and our bitterest enemies.
- Contents:
- 1 Nuclear Politics 5
- 2 Nuclear Relations 20
- 3 The Age of Proliferation 39
- 4 Gearing Up 56
- 5 The Compromise 74
- 6 Help from the West 98
- 7 Aiding and Abetting 116
- 8 A Turn of the Screw 138
- 9 Bombs 'R' Us 155
- 10 End Game 196.
- Notes:
- "A project of the National Security News Service."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781586421373
- 1586421379
- OCLC:
- 144225899
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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