The Atomic Bazaar

Download or read book The Atomic Bazaar written by William Langewiesche and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nuclear age, arms are the ultimate commodity. And now they are easier and cheaper to acquire and make than ever before � which means that for poor nations or non-state terror groups, weapons of mass destruction are up for grabs. William Langewiesche looks at how nuclear weapons have gone wholesale. He visits the smuggling routes in Turkey and closed Russian �nuclear cities� where highly enriched uranium is on sale. He meets technicians, smugglers and spies. And he tells the extraordinary story of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who stole plans to build Pakistan�s nuclear arsenal.