
The Man From Pakistan
The True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler
Grand Central Publishing
Published on 11. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-446-19958-2 (ISBN)
Description
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that has sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Khan's loose-knit organization was and still may be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, and the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Amazingly, American authorities could have halted his operation, but they chose instead to watch and wait. Khan proved that the international safeguards the world relied on no longer worked. Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins tell this alarming tale of international intrigue through the eyes of the European and American officials who suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately shut him down, but only after the nuclear genie was long out of the bottle.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
701 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-446-19958-2 (9780446199582)
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Douglas Frantz is managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, where he has been a business reporter, an investigative reporter, and a foreign correspondent . Catherine Collins has been a reporter for The Chicago Tribune and written for The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times