Ploughshares and swords :

Sarkar, Jayita.

Ploughshares and swords : India's nuclear program in the global Cold War Plowshares and swords Jayita Sarkar. - Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. - xvi, 282 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-273) and index.

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.

"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"-

9781501765018

2021054784


Nuclear energy--History--India--20th century.
Nuclear energy--Government policy--History--India--20th century.
Nuclear weapons--History--India--20th century.
Nuclear weapons--Government policy--History--India--20th century.
Technology and state--History--India--20th century.


India--Foreign relations--1947-1984.

HD9698.I52 / S27 2022

333.792 S245P



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