From U.S. News And World Report:
Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed knows nuclear bombs better than most people. For starters, he designed two of them when he worked at the Livermore National Laboratory as a weapons designer.
His new book The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation, co-written with Danny Stillman, the former director of the technical intelligence division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, rewrites much of the public understanding about how countries with nuclear weapons came to acquire them. All countries that built bombs, including the United States, spied on or were given access to the work of other nuclear powers. In particular, the book is a scathing indictment of the Chinese government, alleging that it intentionally proliferated nuclear technology to risky regimes, particularly Pakistan.
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My Comment: A fascinating read. One that also will make you angry at the Chinese for the cavalier altitude that some have towards the dangers of nuclear weapons.
This story reminds me of a discussion that I had with a number of senior Chinese Government officials 20 years ago. I mentioned to them that culturally the Chinese are one of the oldest people in the world, but politically they are very immature.
This U.S. News and World Report certainly confirms this point of view when it comes to nuclear proliferation.