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Abdul Qadeer Khan is a real-life Dr. Strangelove whose career casts a menacing shadow over the future. Thanks to him, his native country of Pakistan has the nuclear bomb. To his countrymen, he is the hero who allows them to wipe India out even as India wipes them out. As if that were not destabilizing enough, Khan sold the bomb technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. When this proliferation became public knowledge, the Pakistani government of President Musharraf placed Khan under house arrest, hardly more than a token punishment. After five years of an increasingly unsupervised sentence, the high court in Islamabad has freed ...