Ploughshares and swords : India's nuclear program in the global Cold War

India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the progr...

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1. Verfasser: Sarkar, Jayita
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2022
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20th Century
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India & South Asia
India > Foreign relations > 1947-1984
india nuclear weapons
India's space program
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Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy > Government policy > India > History > 20th century
Nuclear energy > India > History > 20th century
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Nuclear weapons > Government policy > India > History > 20th century
Nuclear weapons > India > History > 20th century
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Technology and state > India > History > 20th century
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ISBN:1501765019, 9781501765018, 9781501764400, 150176442X, 1501764403, 9781501764417, 1501764411, 9781501764424
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Zusammenfassung:India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries. The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation. Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index
MODID-4d77f6e0224:Cornell University Press
ISBN:1501765019
9781501765018
9781501764400
150176442X
1501764403
9781501764417
1501764411
9781501764424
DOI:10.7298/zbbj-9q32