Eating Grass

On May 28, 1998, Pakistan announced the test of five nuclear explosive devices in the Chagai Hills in the western province of Baluchistan. A mere seventeen days after neighboring India had shocked the world with its first nuclear tests since 1974, Pakistan’s response came as a surprise to many observers.

This book took six years to compile. what began as a simple quest to com press a holistic account of the Pakistani nuclear program turned into a Rubik’s cube. As a first-time writer setting out to pull together a balanced and objective account on a subject considered taboo for decades, I ran into the proverbial […]