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100 1 _aSarkar, Jayita.
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aPloughshares and swords :
_bIndia's nuclear program in the global Cold War
_cJayita Sarkar.
246 3 _aPlowshares and swords
260 _aIthaca:
_bCornell University Press,
_c2022.
300 _axvi, 282 pages ;
_c23 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-273) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
520 _a"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"-
650 0 _aNuclear energy
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_928732
650 0 _aNuclear energy
_xGovernment policy
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_928733
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_928734
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_xGovernment policy
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_928735
650 0 _aTechnology and state
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_928736
651 0 _aIndia
_xForeign relations
_y1947-1984.
_928737
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aSarkar, Jayita, 1986-
_tPloughshares and swords
_dIthaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
_z9781501764424
_w(DLC) 2021054785
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