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1 online resource. |
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South Asia in world affairs
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South Asia in world affairs series.
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| Contents |
Bureaucratic Inertia and the Nuclear Option -- The Triumph of the Mythmakers -- Facing the Smiling Buddha -- The Enticing Centrifuge -- Procurements and Politics of the Special Project -- Trials, Tussles, and Uranium Enrichment -- Achieving the Plutonium Ambition -- Building the Nuclear Device -- Competition, Command and Control, and the Nuclear Tests Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Major Figures in Pakistan's Nuclear Establishment, 1960-2001 -- Appendix 2. The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program, 1972-1998 -- Appendix 3. Note on "Nuclear Danger from India" submitted to President Ayub Khan by Munir A. Khan and Abdus Salam, Summer of 1967 -- Appendix 4. Newsletter of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission published in May 1974, a few days after India's first nuclear test -- Appendix 5. A. Q. Khan's handwritten private letter to Munir A. Khan, June 1976, on the status of the centrifuge project before he took over as project-director a month later. |
| Summary |
"Mansoor Ahmed's Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb reveals a new history of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and the bureaucratic competition that shaped it from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests and beyond. While the enduring security dilemma from India was the chief driver for the country's quest for the bomb, heated domestic rivalries within the country's technocratic community influenced the direction and growth of the nuclear program in equal measure. Ahmed offers a revisionist assessment of the role of Dr. A. Q. Khan, the giant of Pakistan's nuclear program. He reveals the competition between Khan Research Laboratories and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, how A. Q. Khan was able to build a cult of personality that inflated his role in the public mind, and how Khan was able to build a fiefdom largely outside of state control that proliferated nuclear technology abroad. Drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary-source documents, this book sheds light on the process by which Pakistan became a nuclear power"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nuclear weapons -- Pakistan.
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Pakistan.
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Nuclear weapons |
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy |
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Pakistan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtRHpcQwVgFhwHTVf9hpP |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781647122300 1647122309 9781647122317 1647122317 (DLC) 2021022277 (OCoLC)1251737514 |
| ISBN |
9781647122324 (electronic bk.) |
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1647122325 (electronic bk.) |
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9781647122300 |
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1647122309 |
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9781647122317 |
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1647122317 |
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