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    Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons

    By Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark

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    The shocking, three-decade story of A. Q. Khan and Pakistan's nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry.

    On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan-a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland-stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic-to provide Pakistan a counter to India's recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan's career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world's largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets-a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China.

    Based on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world's most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate debate and command a reexamination of our national priorities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 10, 2010
    ISBN9780802718600
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    Adrian Levy

    Adrian Levy is an internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalist who worked as a staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondent. He is co-author, with Catherine Scott-Clark, of two highly acclaimed books, The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure, and The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. He has reported from South Asia for more than a decade, and now lives in London and in France.

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      An interesting read and the interviews with several important actors shed some light on how the generals 'managed' the transition to 'democracy' after the death of Zia in 1988. Bhutto tries to shift blame but speaks with enough candour to show herself complicit. Also interesting is the rivalry within the Pakistani "military-industrial" complex so to speak and the fact that Pakistan was wasting money on not one but two rival nuclear weapons programmes. What is also interesting is that from an early stage the generals decided that nuclear technology would become a revenue generating asset. Its obvious that some of the interviewees are being self-serving in their interviews and their words should be taken with a pinch of salt, but generally the authors do not seem to have been overly credulous.