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Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy
 
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Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Adrian Levy (Author), Catherine Scott-Clark (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 586 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843545330
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843545330
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 164,194 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #34 in  Books > History > Military History > Weapons & Warfare > Nuclear

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Praise for "DECEPTION":
"An un-putdownable and explosive account of our most recent times that reveals how while our leaders in the West claimed to be securing our future they were ultimately responsible for one of the greatest deceptions of the age." - Simon Reeve, author of the "New York Times" best-seller "The New Jackals - Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism,"
Praise for "The ""Amber"" ""Room":
"Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy delve into the mystery of those vanishings, traversing half of Europe and five decades of history to arrive at a startling and controversial conclusion...The quest offers a detailed view into the communist system 15 years after the Berlin Wall tumbled and its still-pervasive impact upon individual lives and our understanding of history."--"Chicago Tribune"
"In 1941, in advance of the German invasion, the Amber Room was dismantled for protection but never seen again, leading to decades of conspiracy theories. Levy and Scott-Clark, British journalists, solve the mystery; their investigation reads like a Cold War thriller."--"USA Today"


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"Deception" exposes the terrifying truth about the proliferation of nuclear weapons amongst the rogue states and terrorist organizations which now threaten to destabilize the entire world. This book is essential reading for fans of Seymour Hersh, Richard Preston, Mark Bowden, and Jason Burke. On 15 December 1975, A. Q. Khan - a young Pakistani nuclear scientist working in Holland - stole top secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention was to provide for Pakistan a counter to India's ongoing pursuit of an atomic bomb. But over time that ambition mushroomed into a vast nuclear black market sanctioned by Pakistan's military elite - financed by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Libya, as well as boundless assistance from China. They secretly sold weapons to Iran, North Korea, and many others - with the clear knowledge of the American government, for whom Pakistan was a crucial buffer against the Soviets and now an ally in the 'war on terror'. Successive US Administrations conducted a deliberate cover-up: destroying intelligence, lying to Congress and the West about Pakistan's capability, and facilitating the spread of the very weapons we vilify the 'axis of evil' powers for coveting and dread Islamic terrorists obtaining.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening frightening and brilliant, 24 Sep 2007
As events in South Asia and the war on terror crash all around us, fired by the lies told us by Downing Street and the White House, this book puts all of it in a new perspective that was dazzling. I read it in a week, despite its length. If you want to know how we got into this mess, the lies we have been told, going back far further than the war in Iraq, then I am sure anyone would find this book essential reading. A book of the year.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Horribly readable and ultimately terrifying, 12 Sep 2007
I got hold of this as I had read other things by the authors but nothing quite prepared me for Deception. It is a shift away from their previous work into a fast-paced and brilliantly written snapshot of how we have walked into another nuclear winter with our eyes closed, thanks once again to the deception of the Bush administration - among other things.

The lie exposed in this book pre-dates all of America's other lies, concerning as it does Pakistan whose WMD programme was incredibly enabled by the US, that then turned a blind as they sold it on. But what makes this exceptional is that having claimed Pakistan as an ally, post 9/11, the US then suppressed all intelligence on its WMD programme in order to advance a bogus case for war against the WMD arsenal of Saddam Hussein.

If you want to know how we reached where we are - living in fear of terrorism and looking over our shoulder, this book takes you close to the edge.
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6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A bad Bond novel, 13 Sep 2007
I couldn't stop but smile sometimes laugh out loud throughout my read. This book is james bond cross Jason Bourne. As a serious read one should take it with a bucket rather than a pinch of Salt. Titles like this sell well and that is what Mr. Levy knows very well aswell as leveling public opinion this earn money for Mr. Levy( Levy has strong connections with Israel A country that is involved in Nuclear proliferation in the name of Technology trasfer from USA to Israel Demona is no work of Isreali Genius its copy cated from States)

All and all an usubstantiated fairy tale. Two stars for its fictional value
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4.0 out of 5 stars A sobering tale...
A very good read... although the history of the AQ Khan proliferation network has come out in bits and pieces, the authors have done some impressive research and pulled it all... Read more
Published 8 months ago by rkm

4.0 out of 5 stars Firghtening Prospects....
Levy and Scott-Clarke's book is an excellent depiction of Pakistan's nuclear proliferation programme from the late seventies till this day. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ulrik Jungersen Walther

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