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 organisation 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.
- ISBN10 0446505609
- ISBN13 9780446505604
- Publish Date 3 April 2008 (first published 1 December 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grand Central Publishing
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English