Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries
A groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge long-held misconceptions Pakistan's pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery and surrounded by misconceptions. While it is no secret why Pakist...
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Zusammenfassung: | A groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear
power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge
long-held misconceptions
Pakistan's pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains
shrouded in mystery and surrounded by misconceptions. While it is
no secret why Pakistan became a nuclear power, how Pakistan became
a nuclear state has been obscured by mythmaking.
In Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb , Mansoor Ahmed offers
a revisionist history of Pakistan's nuclear program and the
bureaucratic politics that shaped its development from its
inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests. Drawing on elite
interviews and previously untapped primary sources, Ahmed offers a
fresh assessment of the actual and perceived roles and
contributions of the scientists and engineers who led the nuclear
program. He shows how personal ambitions and politics within
Pakistan's strategic enclave generated inter-laboratory competition
in the nuclear establishment, which determined nuclear choices for
the country for more than two decades. It also produced unexpected
consequences such as illicit proliferation to other countries
largely outside of the Pakistani state's control.
As Pakistan's nuclear deterrent program continues to grow,
Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb provides fresh insights
into how this nuclear power has evolved in the past and where it
stands today. Scholars and students of security studies, Pakistani
history, and nuclear proliferation will find this book to be
invaluable to their understanding of the country's nuclear program,
policies, and posture.
In Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb , author Mansoor Ahmed
provides a groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear
power. By drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped
primary sources, Ahmed reveals how bureaucratic politics shaped the
nuclear program's development-and where it stands today. |
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DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv27qzs9k |