The Pakistani Proliferator

Skim through headlines and you’re likely to come across a small handful of countries that garner the lion’s share of attention in the US. Countries like Iran, North Korea and Pakistan have also captured a great deal of attention by the US government as evidenced by their repeated inclusion in the Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review released in 2010, outlining the current and future goals of US defense policy. These countries are unified in the relative power nuclear weapons programs afford them in punching above their weight on international issues. This capability was afforded to them largely by one man.