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Article: Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2007
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Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network. By Gordon Corera. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 288 pages. $28.00. Reviewed by W. Andrew Terrill, General Douglas MacArthur Professor of National Security Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College.
Former CIA Director George Tenet has reportedly described Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden" when the Pakistani nuclear weapons specialist was in his heyday. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera obviously agrees, and in Shopping for Bombs, he explains the reasons for his viewpoint. ...