A groundbreaking account of Pakistans rise as a nuclear power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge longheld misconceptionsPakistans pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery and surrounded by misconceptions. While it is no secret why Pakistan became a nuclear power how Pakistan became a nuclear state has been obscured by mythmaking.In Pakistans Pathway to the Bomb Mansoor Ahmed offers a revisionist history of Pakistans nuclear program and the bureaucratic politics that shaped its development from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests. Drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources Ahmed offers a fresh assessment of the actual and perceived roles and contributions of the scientists and engineers who led the nuclear program.