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The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking

By William Langewiesche

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2008
ISBN
9780141907567
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
328 kB (335782 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-12-30 23:41:37
Politics; Military; Crime; Nonfiction; POL069000

Description

In the nuclear age, arms are the ultimate commodity. And now they are easier and cheaper to acquire and make than ever before – which means that for poor nations or non-state terror groups, weapons of mass destruction are up for grabs. William Langewiesche looks at how nuclear weapons have gone wholesale. He visits the smuggling routes in Turkey and closed Russian 'nuclear cities' where highly enriched uranium is on sale. He meets technicians, smugglers and spies. And he tells the extraordinary story of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who stole plans to build Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

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