How Pakistan got the Bomb

One chapter in the book focuses on how Pakistan acquired nuclear deterrent; it then proceeds to explain Pakistan's proliferation links with Iran, Libya, North Korea

Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance

Hassan Abbas

Penguin Random House

341 pages; Rs 699

Few nation states export terrorism. Fewer still proliferate nuclear weapon systems. Pakistan has done both. By taking such a path, Pakistan has become an international problem to contend with and much less a normal nation state to engage with. Pakistan’s Nuclear Bomb tells the story of a major component that constitutes this Pakistan “problem” — how and why Pakistan acquired its nuclear weapons, and then went on to export them.

The author is Hassan Abbas, one of the investigators who probed charges of corruption against the