| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 597 pages) : illustrations, map |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE. Developing the Technological Base for the Nuclear Option 1948-1963 -- TWO. The First Compromise Shift toward a "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive" 1964 -- THREE. The Search for Help Abroad and the Emergence of Nonproliferation DECEMBER I964-AUGUST I965 -- FOUR. War and Leadership Transitions at Home AUGUST 1965-MAY 1966 -- FIVE. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Secretly Renewed Work on a Nuclear Explosive 1966-1968 -- SIX. Political Tumult and Inattention to the Nuclear Program 1869-1971 -- SEVEN. India Explodes a "Peaceful" Nuclear Device 1971 -- 1974 -- EIGHT. The Nuclear Program Stalls 1975-1980 -- NINE. More Robust Nuclear Policy Is Considered 1980-1984 -- TEN. WW Nuclear Capabilities Grow and Policy Ambivalence Remains NOVEMBER 1984-DECEMBER 1987 -- ELEVEN. The Nuclear Threat Grows Amid Political Uncertainty 1988-1990 -- TWELVE. American Nonproliferation Initiatives Flounder 1991-1994 -- THIRTEEN. India Verges on Nuclear Tests 1995-MAY 1996 -- FOURTEEN. India Rejects the CTBT JUNE 1996-DECEMBER 1997 -- FIFTEEN. The Bombs That Roared 1998 -- CONCLUSION Exploded Illusions of the Nuclear Age -- Afterword JANUARY 1999-JANUARY 2001 -- APPENDIX. India's Nuclear Infrastructure -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Summary |
Annotation In May 1998, India shocked the world--and many of its own citizens--by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove India's new Hindu nationalist government to depart from decades of nuclear restraint, a control that no other nation with similar capacities had displayed? How has U.S. nonproliferation policy affected India's decision making?India's Nuclear Bombis the definitive, comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, has grappled with the twin desires to have and to renounce the bomb. Each chapter contains significant historical revelations drawn from scores of interviews with India's key scientists, military leaders, diplomats and politicians, and from declassified U.S. government documents and interviews with U.S. officials. Perkovich teases out the cultural and ethical concerns and vestiges of colonialism that underlie India's seemingly paradoxical stance. India's nuclear history challenges leading theories of why nations pursue and hang onto nuclear weapons, raising important questions for international relations theory and security studies. So, too, the blasts in Rajasthan have shaken the foundations of the international nonproliferation system. With the end of the Cold War and an even more chaotic international scene, Perkovich's analysis of an alternative model is timely, sobering, and vital |
| Notes |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-582) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nuclear weapons -- India
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World politics -- 1989-
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Military policy
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Nuclear weapons
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World politics
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Military policy
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| Subject |
India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99037464 |
| ISBN |
0520217721 |
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9780520217720 |
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0520232100 |
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9780520232105 |
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0520928105 |
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9780520928107 |
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