Shopping for Bombs Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network

Name: Shopping for Bombs Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network
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ISBN: 9780195375237

ISBN-10: 0195375238

ISBN-13: 9780195375237

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Authors: Gordon Corera

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AQ 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 AQ 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…

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List price: $23.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.990



Taranto--October 2003 Introduction



Rise



Roots



The Bomb Natanz--February 2003



Iran--From Import to Export Chagai Hills-May 1998



North Korea--Pyongyang and Back Jordan--August 1995



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