In his sixth book of combustible investigative journalism, Langewiesche, long a correspondent for the
Atlantic Monthly and now the international editor for
Vanity Fair, takes on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Fluent in nuclear politics, Langewiesche explains why nuclear bombs are now the weapons of choice for poor and poorly governed countries and "the new stateless guerillas," and he reveals how such groups can acquire the components of a nuclear bomb. Intrepid and electrifying, Langewiesche reports on contaminated secret nuclear cities in Russia and such U.S. funded outposts as the so-called Plutonium Palace, and he chronicles how stolen uranium and nuclear hardware are smuggled to Turkey, the "grand bazaar for nuclear goods." The book's most startling disclosures are found in Langewiesche's portrait of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of the "Muslim" bomb and the "greatest nuclear proliferator of all time," and his profile of fellow journalist Mark Hibbs, who has revealed secrets pertinent to the mess in Iran. Langewiesche's bracing expose of nuclear criminality blasts away the ubiquitous misinformation usually attendant on this alarming subject.
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Makes accessible and dramatic a subject that may, if the human race is unlucky, come to be the most critical of the twenty-first century Financial Times Formidable talent ... a journalist whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective The New York Times One of America's most celebrated investigative journalists Rod Liddle Essential reading ... a dispassionate, devastating account of the planet's recent nuclear history. Zadie Smith Beautifully written, as lean, as taut, as frigidly poised as anything you will read this year ... Langewiesche is a sublime writer, everyone should read this book New Statesman
