The Nuclear Jihadist, Douglas Frantz
The Nuclear Jihadist, Douglas Frantz
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The Nuclear Jihadist
The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him

Author: Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins

Narrator: Bob Craig

Unabridged: 15 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 12/03/2007


Synopsis

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that has sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Khan's loose-knit organization was and still may be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, and the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Amazingly, American authorities could have halted his operation, but they chose instead to watch and wait. Khan proved that the international safeguards the world relied on no longer worked.

Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins tell this alarming tale of international intrigue through the eyes of the European and American officials who suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately shut him down, but only after the nuclear genie was long out of the bottle.

About Douglas Frantz

Douglas Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times. After his career in journalism, he was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, and deputy secretary-general at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He has written several nonfiction books with his wife, Catherine Collins, including Fallout and Celebration, U.S.A.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Prasad on August 31, 2021

The initial chapters of the book feel like you are watching an action packed fast paced mystery movie. The books goes into elaborate historical details of how events may have evolved on the world stage. Towards the end though, i felt the books dragged on a bit with details not pertinent to the main s......more

Goodreads review by Rocky on April 07, 2008

Good book with a troubling storyline. The authors let their bias come in late, and actually undermined the book somewhat with some rather poorly executed logic (i.e. the IAEA, which they show to be completely inept throughout the book is, in their opinion the only hope to counter nuclear proliferati......more

Goodreads review by Tom on June 10, 2017

This a fascinating look at the career of A. Q. Khan, the Pakistani father of "the Islamic bomb" (uranium a-bomb) and the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that proliferated nuclear capabilities to North Korea, Libya, Iran, etc. This very detailed study of Khan's network includes * sugge......more

Goodreads review by Neeraj on September 22, 2018

It gives detailed account of nuclear proliferation and work of rogue scientist. It takes you through rise and fall of black market empire build by Khan which has larger significance in present and future power equation. Its mind boggling and sometimes feels like work of fiction. Only to be true, i s......more