India's Nuclear Bomb by George Perkovich
In May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove India's new Hindu nationalist government to depart from decades of nuclear restraint, a control that no other nation with similar capacities had displayed? How has US nonproliferation policy affected India's decision making? This text provides a 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.
George Perkovich is Director of the Secure World Program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the Washington Post, and other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520217720 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520217721 |
| Title | India's Nuclear Bomb |
| Author | George Perkovich |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1999-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 610 |
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