Nuclear Deception The Dangerous Relationship Between the United States and Pakistan

by Levy, Adrian; Scott-Clark, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780802716842
• ISBN10: 0802716849
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-14
• Publisher: Walker Books

Summary

The startling story of America's role, over three decades and five administrations, in aiding and abetting a new age of nuclear terror.In a masterful investigation, Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark reveal the disastrous ideological shortsightedness that has informed American policy toward Pakistan over the last thirty years, and how decades of parochial and sometimes criminal policy enabled a nuclear scandal to evolve. Although seen as a crucial ally, Pakistan instead betrayed the West, building a vast nuclear arsenal in large part with U.S. aid money and selling the technology to countries hostile to the West, while more recently giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda.Deceptionputs our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea, and the quagmire in Iraq, in a startling new perspective, revealing how by giving the Pakistan military succor, the United States has helped usher in a new age of nuclear terror. Based on hundreds of interviews over the past decade in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel and the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia, it is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world's most resourceful investigative journalists. Adrian LevyandCatherine Scott-Clarkare internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalists who worked as staff writers and foreign correspondents for theSunday Timesof London for seven years before joining theGuardianas senior correspondents. They are the authors of two highly acclaimed books:The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost TreasureandThe Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. They have reported from South Asia for more than a decade, and now live in London and in France.On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan--a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland--stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic--to provide Pakistan a counter to India's recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan's career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world's largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets--a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China. Most unnerving, the authors reveal that the sales of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya, so much in the news today, were made with the clear knowledge of the American government, for whom Pakistan has been a crucial buffer state and ally--first against the Soviet Union, now in the "war against terror." Every successive American presidency, from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan's nuclear activity--rewriting and destroying evidence provided by its intelligence agencies, lying to Congress and the American people about Pakistan's intentions and capability, and facilitating, through shortsightedness and intent, the spread of the very weapons we vilify the "axis of evil" powers for having and fear terrorists will obtain.Nuclear Deceptionputs our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea in a startling new perspective, and makes clear two things: that Pakistan, far from being an ally, is a rogue nation at the epicenter of world destabilization; and that the complicity of the United States has ushered in a new nuclear winter. "Levy and Scott-Clark take th

Author Biography

Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalists who worked as staff writers and correspondents for the Sunday Times of London for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondents. They are the authors of two highly acclaimed books, The Amber Room: The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure and The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. They have reported from South Asia for more than a decade, and now live in London and France. Their Web site is www.clarkandlevy.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Maps	p. ix
Introduction: The Core	p. 1
The Angry Young Man	p. 11
Operation Butter Factory	p. 32
Into the Valley of Death	p. 51
Peanuts	p. 72
The Ties That Bind	p. 84
A Figment of the Zionist Mind	p. 99
A Bomb for the Ummah	p. 124
The Pineapple Upside-Down Cake	p. 138
The Winking General	p. 155
Gangsters in Bangles	p. 175
A Guest of the Revolutionary Guard	p. 195
Project A/B	p. 214
Chestnuts and Steamed Fish	p. 238
A New Clear Vision	p. 264
The Window of Vulnerability	p. 286
Mush and Bush	p. 315
Mission Accomplished	p. 352
They Have Fed Us to the Dogs	p. 371
New Think	p. 395
Awakening	p. 429
Afterword	p. 450
Principal Characters	p. 459
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. 467
Notes	p. 469
Bibliography	p. 553
Index	p. 557
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