The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And...
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	The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And...
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Book 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 <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">Iran</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>, <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">North Korea</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>, and <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Libya</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>. 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.

Reader Reviews

We Americans are so unread about what has truly been allowed to go on in the 60-80's, under the watchful eye of many US Presidents. There is enough blame to go around for both parties. If Khan can build nuclear war heads without interruption from his government or ours, what is happening at the moment? So many mistakes over such a long period of time. It is matter of fact, no exaggeration that I can tell. Well worth reading - a MUST! I just wish it were mandatory reading for high schoolers.