From Patriot to Proliferator. Douglas Frantz.
by Frantz, Douglas; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 59Global Issues. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Centrifuges | Khan, Abdul Qadeer | Muslim scientists | Nuclear physicists | Nuclear smuggling | Nuclear weapons -- Pakistan | Pakistan -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: This article chronicles the career of Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, and considers the events that "turned a proud and ambitious man from patriot to proliferator" (LOS ANGELES TIMES).. For many years Khan was shielded from scrutiny "by a largely self-constructed myth that he had almost single-handedly ensured Pakistan's national security by building a nuclear arsenal to counter India's....In February 2004, facing rising international pressure, the government forced Khan to confess that he had run a highly profitable black-market operation that sold nuclear secrets and technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. His activities made him the single most important figure in the spread of atomic weapons beyond a small clutch of nuclear states."Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: From Patriot to Proliferator, Sept. 23, 2005; pp. A1+.
This article chronicles the career of Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, and considers the events that "turned a proud and ambitious man from patriot to proliferator" (LOS ANGELES TIMES).. For many years Khan was shielded from scrutiny "by a largely self-constructed myth that he had almost single-handedly ensured Pakistan's national security by building a nuclear arsenal to counter India's....In February 2004, facing rising international pressure, the government forced Khan to confess that he had run a highly profitable black-market operation that sold nuclear secrets and technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. His activities made him the single most important figure in the spread of atomic weapons beyond a small clutch of nuclear states."
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