Mansoor Ahmed
Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries
Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries
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Pakistan's journey to becoming a nuclear power is explored in Mansoor Ahmed's book, "Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb," through elite interviews and primary sources. It challenges misconceptions and provides a revisionist history of the nuclear program, highlighting the roles of scientists and engineers and the bureaucratic politics that shaped it. The book offers insights into the program's evolution and its impact on Pakistan's security and international relations.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 01 May 2022
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
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 states 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.
Weight: 408g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647122317
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