The age of deception : nuclear diplomacy in treacherous times / Mohamed ElBaradei.

London : Bloomsbury, 2011.

El Baradei, Mohamed.

01-01-2011

340 p. ; 24 cm.

327.1747 ELB (Copy 1) MAIN-MONO 291904 INLIBRARY

Nuclear weapons

Nuclear disarmament

Arms control treaty verification

Weapons inspection

Case studies

History

Overseas item

Nuclear arms control.

Nuclear arms control -- Verification.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781408817001

The author 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.

Iraq, round 1 : after the war -- North Korea, round 1 : the case of the missing plutonium -- Iraq, round 2 : the second Gulf War -- North Korea, round 2 : the nuclear weapons club adds a member -- Iran, round 1 : Taqqiya -- Libya -- the nuclear bazaar of A. Q. Khan -- from Vienna to Oslo -- Iran, round 3 : "not one centrifuge" -- double standards -- Iran, 2007-2008 : squandered opportunities -- Iran, 2009 -- Conclusion : the quest for human security.

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