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Penguin Editor Michal Shavit on The Atomic Bazaar by William Langewieshe
The nuclear arms race is a reality for all of us. The Atomic Bazaar is not only timely – it is critical to our understanding of where our world is heading today. As more and more unstable and undeveloped countries find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, William Langewiesche argues that the process of nuclear proliferation is inevitable and that no amount of manoeuvring will keep these nations from developing nuclear arsenals. Even more disturbing is the possibility of such weapons being manufactured and deployed by guerrilla non-state terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda.
From Hiroshima to the present day, he describes a reality of urgent consequence – one that the West must face up to, but without the blinkered response of suppressing civil liberties, limiting trade or waging blind wars on ‘rogue’ nations. The Atomic Bazaar is brilliant, hard-hitting reportage at its very best and will appeal to anyone interested in current affairs and in understanding the most critical political problem the world now faces.
