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The surprising, three-decade story of an. Q. Khan and Pakistan’s nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the pass on of nuclear weaponry.
 
On Dec 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan—a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland—stole top-secret blueprints for a ground-breaking new process to equip a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was solely patriotic—to provide Pakistan a counter-top to India’s recently launched nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly connect in their masterful research of Khan’s career within the last thirty years, as time passes that limited ambition mushroomed into the world’s most significant clandestine network employed in offering nuclear secrets—a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani armed service and made possible, in large part, by help money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China.

Most unnerving, the creators disclose that the sales of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya, so much in the news today, were made out of the clear understanding of the American government, for whom Pakistan is a crucial buffer point out and ally—first against the Soviet Union, now in the “conflict against terror.” Every successive American presidency, from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, has transformed a blind eyesight to Pakistan’s nuclear activity—rewriting and destroying facts provided by its intellect agencies, lying down to Congress and the American people about Pakistan’s motives and capability, and facilitating, through shortsightedness and purpose, the spread of the extremely weapons we vilify the “axis of evil” capabilities for having and fear terrorists will obtain. Deception puts our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea in a startling new perspective, and makes clear two things: that Pakistan, definately not 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 fresh nuclear winter.

Established on a huge selection of interviews in america, Pakistan, India, Israel, European countries, and Southeast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and remarkable storytelling by two of the world’s most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate question and command word a reexamination in our national priorities.