Eating grass : the making of the Pakistani bomb

Eating grass : the making of the Pakistani bomb / Feroz Hassan Khan.

This book tells the compelling story of how and why Pakistan's government, scientists, and military, persevered in the face of a wide array of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons. It lays out the conditions that sparked the shift from a peaceful quest to acquire nuclear energy into a full-fled...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khan, Feroz Hassan, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons > Pakistan > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Military policy
Nuclear weapons
Pakistan > Military policy.
Pakistan
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Atoms for peace at crossroads of history
  • Ayub's non-decision and the nuclear bomb option
  • Never again
  • The route to nuclear ambition
  • Punishing Pakistan
  • Mastery of uranium enrichment
  • Procurement network in the gray market
  • Building the bomb
  • Mastery of plutonium production
  • Military crises and nuclear signalling
  • Pakistan's missile quest
  • The grazing horse in the meadows
  • The nuclear test decision
  • The dawn of a nuclear power
  • A shaky beginning : Kargil and its aftermath
  • Establishment of robust command and control
  • Testing the deterrent
  • The unraveling of the Khan network
  • Nuclear Pakistan and the world.

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