This volume was completed just before Pakistani President Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in November 2007. The political turmoil that followed raised concerns that Pakistan's nuclear assets might be vulnerable to diversion or misuse. This book, which consists of research that the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) commissioned and vetted in 2006 and 2007, details precisely what these worries might be.
1. Pakistan's nuclear woes / Henry D. Sokolski -- I: Islamabad's proliferating past -- 2. Kahn's nuclear exports: Was there a state strategy? / Bruno Tertrais -- 3. Could anything be done to stop them? Lessons from Pakistan's proliferating past / George Perkovich -- II: Maintaining Southwest Asian deterrence -- 4. Pakistan's "minimum deterrent" nuclear force requirements / Gregory S. Jones -- 5. Islamabad's nuclear posture: Its premises and implementation / Peter R. Lavoy -- 6. Fissile materials in South Asia and the implications of the U.S.-India nuclear deal / Zia Mian, A. H. Nayyar, R. Rajaraman, and M. V. Ramana -- III. Pakistan's next set of nuclear headaches -- 7. Preventing nuclear terrorism in Pakistan: Sabotage of a spent fuel cask or a commercial irradiation source in transport / Abdul Mannan -- 8. Security issues related to Pakistan's future nuclear power program / Chaim Braun -- 9. Bad options: Or how I stopped worrying and learned to live with loose nukes / Thomas Donnelly.