Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons
Written by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark
Narrated by Richard Poe
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Adrian Levy
Adrian Levy is an internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalist who worked as a staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondent. He is co-author, with Catherine Scott-Clark, of two highly acclaimed books, The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure, and The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. He has reported from South Asia for more than a decade, and now lives in London and in France.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An interesting read and the interviews with several important actors shed some light on how the generals 'managed' the transition to 'democracy' after the death of Zia in 1988. Bhutto tries to shift blame but speaks with enough candour to show herself complicit. Also interesting is the rivalry within the Pakistani "military-industrial" complex so to speak and the fact that Pakistan was wasting money on not one but two rival nuclear weapons programmes. What is also interesting is that from an early stage the generals decided that nuclear technology would become a revenue generating asset. Its obvious that some of the interviewees are being self-serving in their interviews and their words should be taken with a pinch of salt, but generally the authors do not seem to have been overly credulous.