LEADER 04558nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910785971003321 005 20230801225003.0 010 $a0-8047-8480-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804784801 035 $a(CKB)2670000000269719 035 $a(EBL)1051411 035 $a(OCoLC)816041307 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755542 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12360728 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755542 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730469 035 $a(PQKB)11386378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1051411 035 $a(DE-B1597)564690 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804784801 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1051411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10618072 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768962 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000269719 100 $a20120417d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEating grass$b[electronic resource] $ethe making of the Pakistani bomb /$fFeroz Hassan Khan 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (550 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-7600-8 311 0 $a0-8047-7601-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMap, Tables, and Figures --$tPreface --$tPakistan: Key Characters --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Atoms for Peace at the Crossroads of History --$t3. Ayub?s Non-Decision and the Nuclear Bomb Option --$t4. Never Again --$t5. The Route to Nuclear Ambition --$t6. Punishing Pakistan --$t7. Mastery of Uranium Enrichment --$t8. Procurement Network in the Grey Market --$t9. Building the Bomb --$t10. Mastery of Plutonium Production --$t11. Military Crises and Nuclear Signaling --$t12. Pakistan?s Missile Quest --$t13. The Grazing Horse in the Meadows --$t14. The Nuclear Test Decision --$t15. The Dawn of a Nuclear Power --$t16. A Shaky Beginning: Kargil and Its Aftermath --$t17. Establishment of Robust Command and Control --$t18. Testing the Deterrent --$t19. The Unraveling of the Khan Network --$t20. Nuclear Pakistan and the World --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative of Pakistani nationalism. Then, impelled first by the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan Wars, and more urgently by India's first nuclear weapon test in 1974, Pakistani senior officials tapped into the country's pool of young nuclear scientists and engineers and molded them into a motivated cadre committed to building the 'ultimate weapon.' The tenacity of this group and the central place of its mission in Pakistan's national identity allowed the program to outlast the perennial political crises of the next 20 years, culminating in the test of a nuclear device in 1998. Written by a 30-year professional in the Pakistani Army who played a senior role formulating and advocating Pakistan's security policy on nuclear and conventional arms control, this book tells the compelling story of how and why Pakistan's government, scientists, and military, persevered in the face of a wide array of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons. It lays out the conditions that sparked the shift from a peaceful quest to acquire nuclear energy into a full-fledged weapons program, details how the nuclear program was organized, reveals the role played by outside powers in nuclear decisions, and explains how Pakistani scientists overcome the many technical hurdles they encountered. Thanks to General Khan's unique insider perspective, it unveils and unravels the fascinating and turbulent interplay of personalities and organizations that took place and reveals how international opposition to the program only made it an even more significant issue of national resolve. Listen to a podcast of a related presentation by Feroz Khan at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. 606 $aNuclear weapons$zPakistan$xHistory 607 $aPakistan$xMilitary policy 615 0$aNuclear weapons$xHistory. 676 $a623.4/5119095491 700 $aKhan$b Feroz Hassan$f1952-$01192874 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785971003321 996 $aEating grass$93783888 997 $aUNINA