TY - BOOK AU - Sarkar,Jayita TI - Ploughshares and swords: India's nuclear program in the global Cold War SN - 9781501765018 AV - HD9698.I52 S27 2022 U1 - 333.792 S245P 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Nuclear energy KW - India KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Government policy KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Technology and state KW - Foreign relations KW - 1947-1984 N1 - 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 N2 - "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"- ER -