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Eating grass : the making of the Pakistani bomb / Feroz Hassan Khan.

By: Publication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 520 p. 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804776011 (pbk.) :
  • 0804776016 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • U264.5.P18 K43 2012
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references 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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