Fallout; The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking

New York: Free Press, 2011. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 289, [1] pages. Contains Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Catherine Collins, a former Chicago Tribune reporter, is a Washington-based writer. Douglas Frantz (born September 29, 1949) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative journalist and author, who served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He was an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times. Frantz served as the Istanbul bureau chief for The New York Times, and the managing editor of the Los Angeles Times from 2005 to 2007. Frantz was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is also the former Managing Director of Kroll’s Business Intelligence Washington office. From 2013 to 2015, Frantz served as the State Department's Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. For more than a quarter of a century, while the Central Intelligence Agency turned a dismissive eye, a globe-straddling network run by Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan sold the equipment and expertise to make nuclear weapons to a rogues' gallery of nations. When the United States finally took action to stop the network in late 2003, President George W. Bush declared the end of the global enterprise to be a major intelligence victory. However, Khan's ring had, by then, sold Iran the technology to bring Tehran to the brink of building a nuclear weapon. The authors examine the huge costs of the CIA's errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of the United States and its allies. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: Central Intelligence Agency, A. Q. Khan, Spread of Nuclear Weapons Technology, Christoph Blocher, Trevor Edwards, Gotthard Lerch, Friedrich Tinner

ISBN: 9781439183069

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