Peddling Peril
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The book by David Albright, Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies, is available in bookstores in the United States and Canada. The book details how states have proliferated nuclear technology and know-how, and argues that much more can and should be done to stop this pathway to the bomb. Peddling Peril grew out of a multiple year research project at ISIS and draws from a vast array of documents including shipping and procurement manifests, blueprints, satellite imagery, court files and interviews. In support of the book’s release, this section of the website is dedicated to providing interested readers with supplemental materials that will allow further exploration of the themes and stories in the book. This site will continue to be updated as additional information becomes available.
What others say about Peddling Peril
“This book will shake up even the most complacent among us. The Pakistani scientist A.G. Khan and his global smuggling network of nuclear secrets is the book’s central case study, but despite Khan’s arrest years back, the market for such illicit information continues to thrive and elude event the savviest of government watchdogs.” – Washingtonpost.com
David Albright, a respected chronicler of undercover nuclear shenanigans, tells [an] alarming story: just how little most governments have done to halt the bomb’s spread….the book’s real value is in pulling…clear threads from the facts and speculation.” — The Economist
“Albright traces in disturbing detail exactly how nuclear technology has proliferated worldwide in the last 20 years… A book that puts into context our genuine nuclear peril while offering concrete ideas on how to reduce it.”-Booklist
“…rewarding… Albright paints a frightening picture of a future rife with unregulated nuclear armament…Worthwhile reading for policy wonks…” - Kirkus
“...[V]ery eye-opening…” - Kiran Chetry, CNN
“It’s chilling stuff we have in here [...] thanks for writing this book.” —Wolf Blitzer
“...[A]n in-depth account of how the maligned AQ Khan network through espionage and stealing build the nuclear plant and finally weapon for Pakistan.” —Right Vision News
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Out of the Cold
- Chapter 2 - Pakistan Gets the Bomb
- Chapter 3 - It’s Just Business
- Chapter 4 - Khan’s First Customers—Iran and Iraq
- Chapter 5 - Finding a New Hideout—South Africa
- Chapter 6 - Libya - A Major Sale At Last
- Chapter 7 - North Korea
- Chapter 8 - Al Qaeda’s Bomb
- Chapter 9 - Uncovering Iran’s Illicit Gas Centrifuge Program
- Chapter 10 - Busting the Khan Network
- Chapter 11 - Suppliers: The First Line of Defense
- Chapter 12 - Illicit Nuclear Trade Today and the Way Forward
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News and Reviews
- The Best Books of the Year: Foreign Affairs Edition
- IEEE Review of Peddling Peril
- LA Times Book review: 'Peddling Peril'
- The New York Review of Books: Nukes for Sale
- The Tavis Smiley Show: David Albright Interviewed
- Economist review: Unstoppable?
- David Albright's Interview on NPR's Fresh Air
- David Albright on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
- Saddam Hussein weighed nuclear 'package' deal in 1990, documents show
Documents and Analysis
- Detecting and Disrupting Illicit Nuclear Trade after A.Q. Khan
- The Leybold Charter: Putting Non-Proliferation Above Commercial Interests
- Pakistani Government Seeks to Investigate A.Q. Khan’s Activities
- The Price of Getting Documents from A.Q. Khan: Carrying his Water
- Project AB: The Khan network's offer to Iraq regarding nuclear weapons
- P2 rotor assemblies delivered to Libya by the Khan network
- Excerpt of Peddling Peril published in Foreign Policy