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Pakistan and the New Age of Nuclear ProliferationEvent Date
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Catherine Collins, former Reporter, Chicago Tribune
Douglas Frantz, Senior Writer, Portfolio Magazine; former Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times
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Catherine Collins has been a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and she has written for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. She has authored several books with her husband, Douglas Frantz, including Celebration and Death on the Black Sea. 
Douglas Frantz is a senior writer at Portfolio magazine. He is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, and he was an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent there and for the New York Times. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and has won several honors for his investigative reporting. 
Reporters Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins detail the sequence of events that allowed one man to lay the groundwork for Pakistan to become a nuclear-armed country. According to their book, The Nuclear Jihadist, the acquisition of nuclear technologies and expertise to assemble functioning bombs by Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Pakistan, can be traced to one source: Abdul Qadeer Khan. From his earliest days working in a Dutch research laboratory through his flight to