Eating grass
Subtitle: the making of the Pakistani bomb
By: Feroz Hassan Khan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780804776004; 9780804776011
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Military policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Atoms for peace at crossroads of history; title: Ayub's non-decision and the nuclear bomb option; title: Never again; title: The route to nuclear ambition; title: Punishing Pakistan; title: Mastery of uranium enrichment; title: Procurement network in the gray market; title: Building the bomb; title: Mastery of plutonium production; title: Military crises and nuclear signalling; title: Pakistan's missile quest; title: The grazing horse in the meadows; title: The nuclear test decision; title: The dawn of a nuclear power; title: A shaky beginning : Kargil and its aftermath; title: Establishment of robust command and control; title: Testing the deterrent; title: The unraveling of the Khan network; title: Nuclear Pakistan and the world.