South Asia in World Affairs series
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South Asia in World Affairs series

Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries

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  2. English
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South Asia in World Affairs series

Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Bureaucratic Inertia and the Nuclear Option
  12. 2 The Triumph of the Mythmakers
  13. 3 Facing the Smiling Buddha
  14. 4 The Enticing Centrifuge
  15. 5 Procurements and Politics of the Special Project
  16. 6 Trials, Tussles, and Uranium Enrichment
  17. 7 Achieving the Plutonium Ambition
  18. 8 Building the Nuclear Device
  19. 9 Competition, Command and Control, and the Nuclear Tests
  20. Conclusion
  21. Appendix 1: Major Figures in Pakistan’s Nuclear Establishment, 1960–1998
  22. Appendix 2: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program, 1972–1998
  23. Appendix 3: Note on “Nuclear Danger from India” submitted to President Ayub Khan by Munir A. Khan and Abdus Salam, Summer 1967
  24. Appendix 4: Newsletter of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission published in May 1974, a few days after India’s first nuclear test
  25. 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
  26. Selected Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. About the Author