India's Nuclear Bomb
Subtitle: The Impact on Global Proliferation (Philip E. Lilienthal Book)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780520217720
Subjects: Central government policies; Nuclear weapons; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; India; Nuclear Proliferation; World politics; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Military & War; History & Theory - General; Military Science; History / Asia; Asia - India & South Asia; 1989-; History
First sentence: "Nuclear power" is a manifold term.
Description: "India's Nuclear Bomb is the definitive, comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, the nation of Gandhi, 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.

George Perkovich teases out the cultural and ethical concerns and vestiges of colonialism that underlie India's seemingly paradoxical stance. India's changing view of itself has as much, or more, to do with its nuclear policy as any threat from outside its borders."--BOOK JACKET.