Eating grass : the making of the Pakistani bomb / Feroz Hassan Khan.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies An Imprint of Standford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xxv, 520 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804776004 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780804776011 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Nuclear weapons -- Pakistan -- History | Pakistan -- Military policyDDC classification: 623.45119095491 LOC classification: U264.5.P18 | K43 2012| Item type | Current location | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-491) and index.
Atoms for peace at crossroads of history -- Ayub's non-decision and the nuclear bomb option -- Never again -- The route to nuclear ambition -- Punishing Pakistan -- Mastery of uranium enrichment -- Procurement network in the gray market -- Building the bomb -- Mastery of plutonium production -- Military crises and nuclear signalling -- Pakistan's missile quest -- The grazing horse in the meadows -- The nuclear test decision -- The dawn of a nuclear power -- A shaky beginning : Kargil and its aftermath -- Establishment of robust command and control -- Testing the deterrent -- The unraveling of the Khan network -- Nuclear Pakistan and the world.
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