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The Atomic Bazaar William Langewiesche

The Atomic Bazaar By William Langewiesche

The Atomic Bazaar by William Langewiesche

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In the nuclear age, arms are the ultimate commodity. And now they are easier and cheaper to acquire and make than ever before. This work looks at how nuclear weapons have gone wholesale. It also tells the story of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who stole plans to build Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

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The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking by William Langewiesche

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.

The Atomic Bazaar Reviews

Essential reading ... a dispassionate, devastating account of the planet's recent nuclear history. * Zadie Smith *
Beautifully written, as lean, as taut, as frigidly poised as anything you will read this year ... Langewiesche is a sublime writer, everyone should read this book * New Statesman *
Formidable talent ... a journalist whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective * The New York Times *
Makes accessible and dramatic a subject that may, if the human race is unlucky, come to be the most critical of the twenty-first century * Financial Times *
One of America's most celebrated investigative journalists * Rod Liddle *
Essential reading ... a dispassionate, devastating account of the planet's recent nuclear history. * Zadie Smith *
Beautifully written, as lean, as taut, as frigidly poised as anything you will read this year ... Langewiesche is a sublime writer, everyone should read this book * New Statesman *
Formidable talent ... a journalist whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective * The New York Times *
Makes accessible and dramatic a subject that may, if the human race is unlucky, come to be the most critical of the twenty-first century * Financial Times *
One of America's most celebrated investigative journalists * Rod Liddle *

About William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche is an author and journalist. He is currently international correspondent for Vanity Fair, having made his name writing for Atlantic Monthly. His strong, evocative prose is used to devastating effect on a range of issues, from the war in Iraq, where he travels extensively outside the Green Zone, to USA-Mexican border disputes and Balkan military deployment. Before embarking on a writing career, he spent two decades as a professional pilot, having performed his first solo flight by the age of fourteen. Langewiesche is the author of five previous books, including The Outlaw Sea and American Ground, an account of clean-up of the Twin Towers. He has been termed one of the leading writers of The New New Journalism, a group of writers who have secured a place at the centre of contemporary American literature, as Tom Wolfe and The New Journalism did in the sixties.

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GOR011903584
9780141031576
0141031573
The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking by William Langewiesche
William Langewiesche
Used - Like New
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20080403
192
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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