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Pakistan's pathway to the bomb ambitions, politics, and rivalries /

"Mansoor Ahmed's Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb reveals a new history of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and the bureaucratic competition that shaped it from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests and beyond. While the enduring security dilemma from India was the c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ahmed, Mansoor (Writer on nuclear weapons) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2022]
Colección:South Asia in world affairs series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Bureaucratic Inertia and the Nuclear Option -- The Triumph of the Mythmakers -- Facing the Smiling Buddha -- The Enticing Centrifuge -- Procurements and Politics of the Special Project -- Trials, Tussles, and Uranium Enrichment -- Achieving the Plutonium Ambition -- Building the Nuclear Device -- Competition, Command and Control, and the Nuclear Tests Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Major Figures in Pakistan's Nuclear Establishment, 1960-2001 -- Appendix 2. The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program, 1972-1998 -- Appendix 3. Note on "Nuclear Danger from India" submitted to President Ayub Khan by Munir A. Khan and Abdus Salam, Summer of 1967 -- Appendix 4. Newsletter of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission published in May 1974, a few days after India's first nuclear test -- Appendix 5. A. Q. Khan's handwritten private letter to Munir A. Khan, June 1976, on the status of the centrifuge project before he took over as project-director a month later. 
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