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The turbulent nation of Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden is far more popular than George W. Bush, possesses a nuclear arsenal built with technology from the United States and Europe, and financed with the help of America’s allies in the Muslim world. Its dictatorial president, Pervez Musharraf, faces widespread civil opposition, and militant extremists threaten his life every day. The nuclear weapons programs in North Korea and Iran, as well as Libya’s now-defunct atomic effort, relied heavily on expertise and materials provided by the nuclear smuggling network headed by Pakistan’s national hero, A.Q. Khan. The United States – from Carter and Reagan, through Bush I, Clinton, and the current president – and other Western governments knew all along that Pakistan was first developing and then exporting nuclear technology, yet consistently turned a blind eye in order to gain Pakistan’s cooperation during the Cold War and, more recently, in the war on terror. As a result of this Faustian bargain, nuclear technology has been allowed to spread far and wide, dramatically increasing the chances that terrorists or unfriendly regimes will someday get their hands on an atomic device.
David Armstrong and Joseph Trento provide a new and unrivalled perspective on the so-called A.Q. Khan nuclear black market scandal, including exclusive accounts from customs agents, intelligence analysts, and other ground-level front-line operatives. Documented in these pages are maddening experiences of official interference and breathtaking instances of indifference and incompetence. Trento and Armstrong name names and reveal stunning new information about proliferators in an exposé that is sure to generate headlines. This secret history of how the Islamic bomb was developed and how nuclear arms have proliferated is as fascinating as it is disturbing.
David Armstrong and Joseph Trento provide a new and unrivalled perspective on the so-called A.Q. Khan nuclear black market scandal, including exclusive accounts from customs agents, intelligence analysts, and other ground-level front-line operatives. Documented in these pages are maddening experiences of official interference and breathtaking instances of indifference and incompetence. Trento and Armstrong name names and reveal stunning new information about proliferators in an exposé that is sure to generate headlines. This secret history of how the Islamic bomb was developed and how nuclear arms have proliferated is as fascinating as it is disturbing.
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David Armstrong is the bureau chief of the National Security News Service in Washington, D.C. He is an award-winning investigative reporter and has written extensively on national security and intelligence matters as well as national politics, foreign policy, terrorism, media, finance, and the environment. He was formerly the editor of the Texas Observer and his work has appeared in a wide range of publications including Harper’s, The New Republic, and several journalism anthologies.
Joseph Trento is the author or co-author of seven nonfiction books, including Unsafe at Any Altitude and The Secret History of the CIA, and an internationally known investigative reporter for over thirty-five years. He now serves as the president of the Public Education Center, a nonpartisan and nonprofit foundation that conducts investigative reporting on environmental and national security matters.
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Joseph Trento is the author or co-author of seven nonfiction books, including Unsafe at Any Altitude and The Secret History of the CIA, and an internationally known investigative reporter for over thirty-five years. He now serves as the president of the Public Education Center, a nonpartisan and nonprofit foundation that conducts investigative reporting on environmental and national security matters.
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Over the past three decades, official investigations in the United States and Europe came close on several occasions to pulling the lid off of Pakistan’s nuclear smuggling network. But to protect strategic relationships with Islamabad, those inquiries were scuttled by intervention at the highest levels of government. The opportunities to roll up the network were lost and the spread of nuclear technology continued.
Suggestions by President George W. Bush and members of his administration that the Khan case is a success story would be laughable if the implications were not so dire. Many of the Khan network’s operatives remain free and live openly in Europe, Asia, and even the United States. The underground trade in nuclear technology continues, and the opportunities for terrorists to get their hands on atomic weaponry are expanding. Many in Pakistan’s military, intelligence, and scientific communities are closely allied with the Taliban and al Qaeda, groups that US policy in the years before 9/11 helped foster. The lure of profits, combined with ideological, religious, and ethnic loyalties creates conditions for potentially deadly cooperation between those with access to nuclear technology and our bitterest enemies.
Over the past three decades, official investigations in the United States and Europe came close on several occasions to pulling the lid off of Pakistan’s nuclear smuggling network. But to protect strategic relationships with Islamabad, those inquiries were scuttled by intervention at the highest levels of government. The opportunities to roll up the network were lost and the spread of nuclear technology continued.
Suggestions by President George W. Bush and members of his administration that the Khan case is a success story would be laughable if the implications were not so dire. Many of the Khan network’s operatives remain free and live openly in Europe, Asia, and even the United States. The underground trade in nuclear technology continues, and the opportunities for terrorists to get their hands on atomic weaponry are expanding. Many in Pakistan’s military, intelligence, and scientific communities are closely allied with the Taliban and al Qaeda, groups that US policy in the years before 9/11 helped foster. The lure of profits, combined with ideological, religious, and ethnic loyalties creates conditions for potentially deadly cooperation between those with access to nuclear technology and our bitterest enemies.
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