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Author Sarkar, Jayita, 1986- author.

Title Ploughshares and swords : India's nuclear program in the global Cold War / Jayita Sarkar
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022

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Contents Introduction : Freedom of Action -- Atomic Earths and State-Making, 1940s-48 -- Radium to Reactors, 1948-53 -- Nuclear Marketplace Opens for Business, 1953-62 -- Plutonium, Power Reactors, and Space Projects, 1962-64 -- The Plowshare Loophole, 1964-70 -- Fractured Worlds, 1970-74 -- Explosion and Fallout, 1974-80s -- Epilogue : The Anti-Dissent Machine
Summary "This book is a study of India's nuclear program (1940s-1980s) through its global partnerships with governments and businesses, its close association with the space program, its anti-nonproliferation stance during most of the Cold War, and the intermestic territorial threats that influenced its unique outcomes"- Provided by publisher
Analysis ploughshare loophole, anti-dissent machine, pokhran sikkim, reagan administration nuclear weapons, India's space program, india nuclear weapons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Nuclear energy -- India -- History -- 20th century
Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century
Nuclear weapons -- India -- History -- 20th century
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century
Technology and state -- India -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Technology and state
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear energy -- Government policy
Nuclear energy
Diplomatic relations
SUBJECT India -- Foreign relations -- 1947-1984. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003038
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021054785
ISBN 9781501764417
1501764411
9781501764424
150176442X
Other Titles Plowshares and swords