Deception, Adrian Levy
Deception, Adrian Levy
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Deception
Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons

Author: Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/24/2009


Synopsis

Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned investigative journalists. In Deception, they reveal the decades-long story of Pakistan's nuclear program-and how the United States has been complicit in the spread of nuclear arms. Based on hundreds of interviews from around the world, this work will force Americans to reexamine national priorities.

About Adrian Levy

Adrian Levy is coauthor, with Cathy Scott-Clark, of four books, including The Meadow and The Amber Room. For eighteen years, he worked as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for the Sunday Times and then the Guardian. He has been named British Journalist of the Year by the One World Trust as well as Foreign Correspondent of the Year. He has also coproduced, with Scott-Clark, several documentaries for American and British television, including City of Fear and Kashmir's Torture Trail. Adrian lives in France.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on July 26, 2020

Good read, what a deception. I found it interesting that Peter Griffin says he met a Pakistani Brigadier-General Anis Nawab (pg 39). Similarly Adrian Levy reports that there was a Brigadier General working for A.Q. Khan in Pakistan (pg 35). This is interesting because "Brigadier-General" is not even......more

Goodreads review by Colin on December 14, 2016

This book overviews the history of Pakistan’s uranium weapons enrichment program, the illicit global procurement network created by A.Q. Khan to build that program, the failure of the United States to stop that program, and its links to other nuclear weapons programs in Libya, Iran, North Korea, and......more

Goodreads review by Arthur Edelstein on June 14, 2008

This is a fantastically detailed report on the skulduggery in Washington and Islamabad surrounding Pakistan's nuclear program and proliferation programs. However I have doubts about the correctness of the interpretation.......more

Goodreads review by Dermot on January 17, 2017

If you want a book that exposes the vagaries of short term political foresight this is a great place to start. Excellent stuff. Brilliantly written and most of all a sad damning critique of so called great power politics .......more

Goodreads review by Akshay on December 23, 2017

A Mind boggling account of nuclear proliferation at a scale that has not yet matched by anyone else. It establishes the fact that Pakistan , A failed state in itself has let its soil be used for activities that have led to the spread of terrorism and arming unstable states with nuclear tech and an e......more