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Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network
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." A hero in Pakistan and revered as the Father of the Bomb, Khan built a global clandestine network that sold the most closely guarded nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.
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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by Oxford University Press
(first published January 1st 2006)
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Gordon Corera’s book “Shopping For Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network” is an interesting read and offers a good history of what has gone wrong in the attempt to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. What is apparent from reading this book is that while A. Q. Khan is the face of what went wrong; if it hadn’t been him then it would have been someone else. The book is divided into two fairly simple sections, “Rise” and “Fall”. The “Rise”...more
Very informative and explains how N. Korea, Iran and Libya ended up with the blueprint on how to build nuclear weapons ( who knew that it all started in an obscure lab in Belgium). Now I Know the subtleties about uranium enrichment, weapon grade uranium, yellow cake and plutonium . The book traces back the origin of the tense situation the western world finds itself with N,Korea and Iran.
Although this book is completley against the our real hero DR QADEER KHAN but we still love our hero and the prson who left everything for just PAKISTAN we always love with our real hero and without his help we can't be the seventh atomic power and the first ISLAMIC power although the he is now in prison but this prison of DR QADEER is due to two islamic countries one is LIBYA and second is IRAN both treat too much selfishly although that great scientist do all things to provide atomic power to...more
This books tells the story of the nuclear proliferation network headed by A.Q. Khan. It covers the rise and fall of this network. The book is well-researched and includes a great deal of good information on the topic, but the writing style is somewhat dry.
If you're interested in nuclear proliferation, want to know who to thank for uranium enrichment programs in North Korea and Iran, and don't want to sleep at night, read this!
A little bit too anecdotal and not very well-sourced, but fascinating.
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