Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb

Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb

Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries

Ahmed, Mansoor

Georgetown University Press

05/2022

304

Mole

Inglês

9781647122317

15 a 20 dias

408

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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, 1960-2001

Appendix 2: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program, 1972-2001

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
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Pakistan nuclear program;A.Q. Khan;Munir Khan;Chagai;Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission