Shopping for Bombs by BBC Correspondent Gordon Corera is an interesting insight into the development of Pakistan uranium enrichment program post 1974 era (After the legendary smile of Buddha on 18 May 1974) and the smuggling of this technology to almost all the countries of middle east and North Korea.
Mr. A. Q. Khan is known as the "Father of Islamic Bomb" and he literally made this happen for the Islamic world by stealing the design of centrifuges from UNRENCO nuclear research lab in Holland in 1975-78. He was ultra nationalist and was trying hard to giving a fitting reply to Pakistan's defeat in 1971 war and India's nuclear explosion of 1974. He eventually succeeded in it but as a side effect he converted all of Asia into an enternal nuclear battlefield. Must read if you want to understand "atoms of peace" and "axis of evil".
Recommended (7/10)
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yup its a nice read...This is where I came to know of Malaysia's and Libya's involvement in Nuclear piracy...
The book pictures India in good light except the one in context of misuse of Atoms for Peace...
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