Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb, by Feroz Hassan Khan

S. Samuel C. Rajiv
Dr S Samuel C Rajiv is Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Prior to joining MP-IDSA in November 2006, Dr Rajiv worked at… Continue reading Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb, by Feroz Hassan Khan read more
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Brigadier Feroz Hassan Khan (Retd) brings to bear the right credentialsto this six year effort under review. The career Pakistan Army officer andJohns Hopkins University graduate (1989–91), currently a faculty memberof the Naval Postgraduate School, Moneterey, California, spent the lastdecade of his 32 year service (he retired in 2001) dealing with nuclearissues in key positions. These included as the head of the ‘C’ Divisionin the Combat Development Directorate (CD Directorate), which laterbecame the Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs (ACDA) division inthe Strategic Plans Division (SPD) when it was established in 1998. Theauthor follows in the academic footsteps of his immediate successor atACDA, Brigadier Naem Salik (Retd), whose book, The Genesis of SouthAsian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective (Oxford University Press),came out in 2009.

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Keywords: India, Pakistan