The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets…And How We Could Have Stopped Him Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the very first time because the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there’s a solid likelihood which the path of devastation will business lead back again to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani dad of the Islamic bomb as well as the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise which has offered nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.

Khan’s loose-knit business was and still could be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, as well as the expertise to put together the works right into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Amazingly, American regulators could possess halted his operation, but they selected instead to watch and wait around. Khan proved the fact that international safeguards the world relied on no longer worked.

Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins tell this alarming story of international intrigue through the eye of the Western and American officials who suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately shut him down, but only following the nuclear genie was long out of the container.