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Written by a 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. Furthermore, the book reveals how international opposition to the program only made it an even more significant issue of national resolve.
Contents
Preface
Pakistan: Key Characters
Abbreviations 1 Introduction
Part I: The Reluctant Phase
2 Atoms for Peace at the Crossroads of History
3 Ayub’s Non-Decision and the Nuclear Bomb Option
4 Never Again
Part II: The Secret Nuclear R&D Pro gram
5 The Route to Nuclear Ambition
6 Punishing Pakistan
7 Mastery of Uranium Enrichment
8 Procurement Network in the Grey Market
9 Building the Bomb
10 Mastery of Plutonium Production
Part III: Covert Arsenal and delivery means
11 Military Crises and Nuclear Signaling
12 Pakistan’s Missile Quest
13 The Grazing Horse in the Meadows
14 The Nuclear Test Decision
Part IV: Toward an Operational Deterrent
15 The Dawn of a Nuclear Power
16 A Shaky Beginning: Kargil and Its Aftermath
17 Establishment of Robust Command and Control
18 Testing the Deterrent
Part V: Meeting New Challenges
19 The Unraveling of the Khan Network
20 Nuclear Pakistan and the World
Epilogue
Notes
Index
ISBN - 9789382264620
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Pages : 552
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