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Tom Weiners baritone lends gravity to this chilling book about nuclear weapons and the potential for terrorists to use them. Yet Weiners narration trots along too quickly for many listeners to follow the complex technical details and profound political ideas presented by the author. Examining the trade in nuclear materials, the players in nuclear terrorism, and the risks of a terrorist nuclear strike, Langewiesche paints a bleak picture of the current landscape of these high-powered weapons. While this book, a collection of articles from the ATLANTIC MONTHLY, may lack coherence, its message is grim: the nuclear bazaar exists, and proliferation cannot be stopped. K.M. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine--
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From Booklist
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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