The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the very first time because the end from the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is certainly increasing. Should such an assault occur, there is a solid likelihood the path of devastation will lead back again to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani dad of the Islamic bomb as well as the mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that has offered nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.

Khan’s loose-knit firm was and still may be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling weapons blueprints, parts, as well as the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Amazingly, American government bodies could possess halted his operation, but they select instead to view and wait. Khan proved the international safeguards the globe relied on no more worked.

Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins tell this alarming tale of international intrigue through the eye of the Western and American officials who have suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately shut him down, but only following the nuclear genie was long from the bottle.