Proliferating the bomb with aplomb
The Economist reviews The Nuclear Jihadist “The book’s most revealing passages are about America’s role in the affair. The authors argue that successive American administrations knew a lot about Mr...
View ArticleRichard Rhodes@Google
As part of the Authors@Google talk series that Google has organised, everyone’s favourite nuclear historian Richard Rhodes gave a talk at the company, partly on general nuclear history and policy and...
View ArticleThe Atomic Pirate- A Cautionary Tale For Our Times
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor By William Langewiesche Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Interest in the Pakistani nuclear marketeer A Q Khan has reemerged recently with news of his...
View ArticleThe cracks start to become visible
When Pervez Musharraf put nuclear pirate A Q Khan under house arrest, Khan asked an associate, “Why is this boy doing this to me?”. Now it looks like that “boy” had indeed been naughty too. Khan has...
View ArticlePakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
And what woe it could breed The New York Times has a very interesting, lengthy article by David Sanger on problems with Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Although Pakistani officials repeatedly suggest that...
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