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The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2007
On Sale: May 15, 2007
192 pages
ISBN: 0374106789
EAN: 9780374106782
Hardcover
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In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated
journalist William 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 Hiroshima to the present day, Langewiesche describes a
reality of urgent consequence to us all. This searing,
provocative, and timely report is a triumph of investigative
journalism, and a masterful laying out of the most critical
political problem the world now faces.
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