The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
 

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor

by William Langewiesche


In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, the stakes of... (read more)

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Like bfeld, I also felt that Langewiesche's latest work is both terrifying and informative. However, unlike his phenomenal "The Outlaw Sea," "Atomic Bazaar" simply does not do this topic the sort of justice I think it deserves. Langewiesche's slender book is better suited to a two part series in The Atlantic Monthly -- which published a large portion of the A.Q. Khan story on their website earlier this summer. I wish that Mr. Langewiesche had expanded his text to include more about other...

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