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How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies
Simon and Schuster
March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
306 pages
ISBN: 1416549315
EAN: 9781416549314
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A revelation-packed look at the A.Q. Khan network and
related illicit nuke trading. With the revelation of Iran’s secret uranium enrichment
facilities, North Korea’s brazen testing of missiles and
nuclear weapons, and nuclear-endowed Pakistan’s descent into
instability, the urgency of the nuclear proliferation
problem has never been greater. Based on his extensive
experience in tracking the illicit nuclear trade as one of
the world’s foremost proliferation experts, in Peddling
Peril David Albright offers a harrowing narrative of the
frighteningly large cracks through which nuclear weapons
traffickers—such as Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q.
Khan—continue to slip. Six years after the arrest of Khan, the networks he
established continue to thrive, with black markets sprouting
up across the globe. The dramatic takedown of the leader of
the world’s largest and most perilous smuggling network was
originally considered a model of savvy detection by
intelligence and enforcement agencies, including the CIA and
MI6. But, as Albright chronicles, the prosecutions of
traffickers that were much anticipated have not come to
pass, and Khan himself was released from house arrest in
February 2009. Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea all use state sponsored
smuggling networks that easily bypass export regulations and
avoid detection. Albright illuminates how these networks
have learned many ways to trick suppliers across the globe,
including many in the United States, into selling them vital
parts, and why, despite the fact that, since 2007, several
dozen companies have been indicted—with some pleading
guilty—for suspicion of participating in illicit trade, very
few prosecutions have been achieved. Peddling Peril charts the dealings of several of these
companies. Albright also reports on the hopeful story of the
German company Leybold’s decision to become an industry
watchdog, and shows how this story reveals just how
effective corporate monitoring and government cooperation
would be if more serious efforts were made. Concluding with
a detailed plan for clamping down tightly on the illicit
trade, Albright shows the way forward in the vital mission
of freeing the world of this terrifying menace.
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