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Book The Age of Deception

Download or read book The Age of Deception written by Mohamed ElBaradei and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, Muammar al-Gaddafi's Libya, and the Islamic Republic of Iran - gave ample opportunity for high-stakes and high-profile decision-making. But no one could have predicted that ElBaradei would be 'the man in the middle' of so many nuclear conflicts over so sustained a period of time. And after he and the IAEA were jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, his role as middle-man only gained intensity.In The Age of Deception, Dr. ElBaradei gives us his account from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly predict the coming war. They will eavesdrop on the exchanges between UN inspectors and U.S. officials observing the behind-the-scenes formulation of an approach to foreign policy and diplomacy that would come to characterise the Bush administration. We gain a feel for the difficulty of the IAEA inspectors' struggle to maintain objectivity when trust has been broken, or when the press - or governments - are playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity.

Book Deception

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  • Author : Adrian Levy
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-08-10
  • ISBN : 0802718604
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Deception written by Adrian Levy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking, three-decade story of A. Q. Khan and Pakistan's nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry. On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan-a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland-stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic-to provide Pakistan a counter to India's recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan's career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world's largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets-a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China. Based on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world's most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate debate and command a reexamination of our national priorities.

Book The Nuclear Deception

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  • Author : Servando Gonzalez
  • Publisher : InteliNet/InteliBooks
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0971139156
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Nuclear Deception written by Servando Gonzalez and published by InteliNet/InteliBooks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The event known as the Cuban missile crisis, the greatest of all Cold War crises, is a milestone in the history of the Cold War. According to the author, the main questions of the situation have eluded satisfactory answers because analysts have neglected the true Cuban role in the event, particularly the Russo-Cuban relations prior to the crisis.

Book The Trident Deception

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  • Author : Rick Campbell
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-03-11
  • ISBN : 1250039010
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Trident Deception written by Rick Campbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day Hunt for Red October—an armed nuclear submarine is taken over and must be hunted down before its weapons are launched

Book The Nuclear Power Deception

Download or read book The Nuclear Power Deception written by Arjun Makhijani and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides critical analysis and historical evidence to refute the claims of the nuclear power industry that nuclear power can alleviate the build-up of greenhouse gases and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. It also reveals the hazards of further proliferation of nuclear weapons from the growing quantities of plutonium generated by existing nuclear power plants throughout the world. Prepared under the auspices of a scientifically respected institute, "The Nuclear Power Deception" exposes the flagrant misrepresentation of nuclear power as "to cheap to meter" and environmentally benign and safe by government and industry officials in the 1940s and 1950s when they had ample evidence to the contrary. Instead they suppressed that evidence, much of which is presented in this book. Essential background reading for students, teachers, peace and environmental activists, and others concerned about the threat nuclear power continues to pose for the future of humankind.

Book Nuclear Wastelands

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  • Author : International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780262632041
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Nuclear Wastelands written by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace and environmental activists.A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace and environmental activists, Nuclear Wastelands provides concise histories of the development of nuclear weapons programs of every declared and de facto nuclear weapons power, as well as detailed surveys of the health and environmental effects of this development both in these countries and in non-nuclear nations involved in nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining. Among the more obvious but largely deferred costs of the Cold War are those related to the management of radioactive waste. The world is burdened with thousands of unwanted nuclear devices and mounting surpluses of weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium. In addition, the process of weapons production and testing has left many lands, aquifers, rivers, lakes, and seas contaminated by a multitude of weapons-related poisons. This book follows the production process step by step and country by country from uranium mining to the final assembly and storage of weapons, analyzing the potential hazards of each step and compiling the most complete information available on the actual health and environmental effects, in each country involved. Nuclear Wastelands includes a wealth of information that has only recently come to light, particularly on the nuclear weapons program of the former Soviet Union. It also features critical analyses of official public communications concerning the health and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons production, bringing to light governmental secrecy and outright deception that have led to the subversion of democratic principles, and have camouflaged the damage done to the very people and lands the weapons were meant to safeguard.

Book Nuclear Deception

Download or read book Nuclear Deception written by Adrian Levy and published by Walker Books. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The startling story of America's role, over three decades and five administrations, in aiding and abetting a new age of nuclear terror. In a masterful investigation, Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark reveal the disastrous ideological shortsightedness that has informed American policy toward Pakistan over the last thirty years, and how decades of parochial and sometimes criminal policy enabled a nuclear scandal to evolve. Although seen as a crucial ally, Pakistan instead betrayed the West, building a vast nuclear arsenal in large part with U.S. aid money and selling the technology to countries hostile to the West, while more recently giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. Deception puts our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea, and the quagmire in Iraq, in a startling new perspective, revealing how by giving the Pakistan military succor, the United States has helped usher in a new age of nuclear terror. Based on hundreds of interviews over the past decade in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel and the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia, it is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world's most resourceful investigative journalists.

Book Deception

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  • Author : Catherine Scott-Clark Levy Adrian
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780143063056
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Deception written by Catherine Scott-Clark Levy Adrian and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stunning Exposé Of How A.Q. Khan Set Up Pakistan S Nuclear Programme, And The Role Of The United States In The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons Based On Hundreds Of Interviews In The United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, And Southeast Asia, Deception Is A Masterwork Of Reportage And Dramatic Storytelling By Two Of The World S Most Resourceful Investigative Journalists. It Is The Most Complete Account Of Pakistan S Clandestine Nuclear Network As It Has Extended From Islamabad Around The World, And Chronicles How A.Q. Khan S Operation And His Ultimate Fall From Grace Are Part Of A Much Larger Deceit. In This Masterful Investigation Adrian Levy And Catherine Scott-Clark Chillingly Relate How Thirty Years Of Parochial And Sometimes Criminal Policy Of The United States Enabled Pakistan To Betray The West, Build A Vast Nuclear Arsenal With Us Aid Money, And Sell The Technology To Countries Hostile To The West, While Giving Shelter To The Resurgent Taliban And Al-Qaeda. Every American Administration From Jimmy Carter To George W. Bush Has Condoned Pakistan S Nuclear Activity, Rewriting And Destroying Evidence Provided By Us And Western Intelligence Agencies, Deceiving About Pakistan S Intentions And Capability, And Facilitating The Spread Of The Very Weapons It Is Feared Terrorists Will Obtain. Most Unnerving, The Authors Reveal That The Sales Of Nuclear Weapons Technology To Iran, North Korea, And Libya, So Much In The News Today, Were Made With The Clear Knowledge Of The American Government, For Whom Pakistan Has Been A Crucial Buffer State And Ally. Deception Puts The Current Standoffs With Iran And North Korea In A Startling New Perspective, And Makes Clear Two Things: That Pakistan, Far From Being An Ally, Is A Rogue Nation At The Epicenter Of World Destabilization; And That The Complicity Of The United States Has Ushered In A New Nuclear Winter.

Book Deception

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  • Author : Adrian Levy
  • Publisher : Atlantic
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781843545354
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Deception written by Adrian Levy and published by Atlantic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed authors of "The Amber Room" deliver the shocking, three-decade story of A.Q. Khan and Pakistan's nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry.

Book Deception

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  • Author : Charles Robinson Smith
  • Publisher : The Pine Lake Media Group
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780976116806
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Deception written by Charles Robinson Smith and published by The Pine Lake Media Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of the greatest Chinese espionage successes against the USA. Deception takes the reader through a documented tale of spies, secrets, money sex and power that dominates the US government.Get the full story from the journalist that broke the China-Gate scandal along with the documented evidence that turned China-Gate into a full blown investigation. Author Charles R. Smith names the Chinese generals the greedy corporate bosses that sold America out to China.Deception details the Clinton Administration and it's trade in weapons, US defense secrets and money using documented evidence obtained from nearly 50,000 of official and classified US Government documents. For the past decade, investigative journalist Charles R. Smith used the freedom of information act to get these documents and bring home the truth.Find out about General Ding Heng Gao, commander of the Chinese espionage unit, COSTIND, or the Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The documented evidence includes letters from General Ding to Ron Brown and Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry.

Book American Ground Zero

Download or read book American Ground Zero written by Carole Gallagher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout.

Book Button Up

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  • Author : Dr. Ronald A. Hardert
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2014-02-24
  • ISBN : 1490722254
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Button Up written by Dr. Ronald A. Hardert and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book calls into question building additional nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants given the attendant health problems, mainly childhood leukemia, thyroid cancer, breast and testicular cancer. Our inquiry is based on our continuing involvement in the peace and social justice movements and researching oil, chemical, and nuclear disasters. New findings support the social power theories of C. Wright Mills, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas. Data analyzed in our book are based on the experiences of ordinary people attempting to deal with nuclear secrecy and deception.

Book The Age of Deception

Download or read book The Age of Deception written by Mohamed ElBaradei and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the Nobel laureate and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out--on his dealings with America, negotiations with Iran, and the prospects for a nuclear-free future.

Book Nuclear Deception

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  • Author : Tetsuzo Fuwa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-11
  • ISBN : 9784880480718
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Nuclear Deception written by Tetsuzo Fuwa and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuclear Folly  A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Download or read book Nuclear Folly A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis written by Serhii Plokhy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.

Book The Politics of Deception

Download or read book The Politics of Deception written by Patrick J. Sloyan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights Movement. Using recently released White House tape recordings and interviews with key inside players, The Politics of Deception reveals: Kennedy's secret behind-the-scenes deals to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis.The overthrow and assassination of President Diem.Kennedy's hostile interactions with and attempts to undermine Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy's secret and fascinating dealings with Diem, General Curtis LeMay, King and Fidel Castro. Kennedy's last year in office, and his preparation for the election that never was. The Politics of Deception is a fresh and revealing look at an iconic president and the way he attempted to manage public opinion and forge his legacy, sure to appeal to both history buffs and those who were alive during his presidency.

Book The Doomsday Machine

Download or read book The Doomsday Machine written by Daniel Ellsberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week” From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.