TY - BOOK AU - Langewiesche,William TI - The atomic bazaar: the rise of the nuclear poor SN - 9780374106782 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - U264 .L365 2007 U1 - 355.02/17095491 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Pakistan KW - Nuclear nonproliferation KW - World politics KW - 21st century N1 - The vanguard of the poor -- Nukes without nations -- The wrath of Khan -- The point of no return N2 - Journalist Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to frightening heights. Even more disturbing is the likelihood of such weapons being manufactured and deployed by guerrilla non-state terrorists. Langewiesche also recounts the recent history of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist at the forefront of nuclear development and trade in the Middle East who masterminded the theft and sale of centrifuge designs that helped to build Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and who single-handedly peddled nuclear plans to North Korea, Iran, and other potentially hostile countries. He then examines in dramatic and tangible detail the chances for nuclear terrorism.--From publisher description UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006102539.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2006102539-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2006102539-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2006102539-s.html ER -