Pakistan’s Pathway to the Bomb Audiobook Libro.fm

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Pakistans pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery and surrounded by misconceptions While it is no secret why Pakistan became a nuclear power how Pakistan became a nuclear state has been obscured by mythmaking

In Pakistans Pathway to the Bomb Mansoor Ahmed offers a revisionist history of Pakistans nuclear program and the bureaucratic politics that shaped its development from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests Drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources Ahmed offers a fresh assessment of the actual and perceived roles and contributions of the scientists and engineers who led the nuclear program He shows how personal ambitions and politics within Pakistans strategic enclave generated interlaboratory competition in the nuclear establishment which determined nuclear choices for the country for more than two decades It also produced unexpected consequences such as illicit proliferation to other countries largely outside of the Pakistani states control

As Pakistans nuclear deterrent program continues to grow Pakistans Pathway to the Bomb provides fresh insights into how this nuclear power has evolved in the past and where it stands today