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082			_a623.45119092 _bFRA/M
100			_aFrantz, Douglas
245			_aThe man from Pakistan : the true story of the world's most dangerous nuclear smuggler
260			_aNew York _bTwelve _c2007
300			_a413 p.
520			_aThe world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that has sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Khan's loose-knit organization was and still may be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, and the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Amazingly, American authorities could have halted his operation, but they chose instead to watch and wait. Khan proved that the international safeguards the world relied on no longer worked. Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins tell this alarming tale of international intrigue through the eyes of the European and American officials who suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately shut him down, but only after the nuclear genie was long out of the bottle.
650			_aNuclear nonproliferation
650			_anuclear terrorism
650			_aKhan, A. Q. (Abdul Qadeer), 1936-
650			_aNuclear weapons information
650			_aSecurity, International
700			_aCollins, Catherine
942			_cBK
999			_c61423 _d61423