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In Pakistan’s Pathway to the Bomb, author Mansoor Ahmed provides a groundbreaking account of Pakistan’s rise as a nuclear power. By drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources, Ahmed reveals how bureaucratic politics shaped the nuclear program’s development–and where it stands today.
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9781647122324Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Bureaucratic Inertia and the Nuclear Option
- 2 The Triumph of the Mythmakers
- 3 Facing the Smiling Buddha
- 4 The Enticing Centrifuge
- 5 Procurements and Politics of the Special Project
- 6 Trials, Tussles, and Uranium Enrichment
- 7 Achieving the Plutonium Ambition
- 8 Building the Nuclear Device
- 9 Competition, Command and Control, and the Nuclear Tests
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Major Figures in Pakistan’s Nuclear Establishment, 1960–1998
- 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 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
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author