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Deception Pakistan, USA and the secret trade in nuclear weapons
| Author | A.Levy, C.Scott-Clark |
| Date | 2007 |
| Classification | 4.02.7.10/05 (PAKISTAN - THEFT UCN ENRICHMENT DATA, KHAN) |
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From the publication:
THE STARTLING STORY OF AMERICA'S ROLE-OVER THREE DECADES AND FIVE ADMINISTRATIONS-IN AIDING AND ABETTING THE NUCLEAR AMBITIONS OF THE "AXIS OF EVIL." In President George W. Bush's State of the Union address in 2002, he pinpointed three nuclear hot spots as threats to the free world: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. What he did not admit was America's role in facilitating the spread of nuclear weapons to these "axis of evil" powers and the critical part played by a key U.S. ally: the Pakistan military government and its front man, the nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan.In a masterful investigation, Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark reveal the disastrous ideological shortsightedness that has informed American policy toward Pakistan over the last thirty years, enabling the nuclear scandal to evolve. Although seen as a crucial buffer state and ally-first against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, now in the "war on terror"-Pakistan instead betrayed the West, building a vast nuclear arsenal in large part with U.S. aid money and selling the technology to countries hostile to the West, while more recently giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. Deception is the most complete account of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear network as it has extended from Islamabad around the world, and chronicles how Khan's operation, and his ultimate fall from grace, have been part of a much larger deceit. As Levy and Scott-Clark relate, every American administration from Jimmy Carter's to George W. Bush's has condoned Pakistan's nuclear activity-rewriting and destroying evidence provided by U.S. and Western intelligence agencies; lying to Congress and the American people about Pakistan's intentions and capability so that U.S. aid to Pakistan, prohibited to countries illicitly holding nuclear weapons, could be maintained; secretly supplying components and equipment to Pakistan in the full knowledge that they could be used in a nuclear program; even tipping off the Pakistani government about criminal probes into its nuclear program by U.S. agencies.
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