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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Hlavní autor: Sarkar, Jayita
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2022
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Abstract 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.
AbstractList 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.
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.
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.
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anti-dissent machine
Asia
Asian history
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India & South Asia
India -- Foreign relations -- 1947-1984
india nuclear weapons
India's space program
Military
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Nuclear energy -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century
Nuclear weapons -- India -- History -- 20th century
ploughshare loophole
pokhran sikkim
reagan administration nuclear weapons
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Technology and state -- India -- History -- 20th century
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TableOfContents Ploughshares and Swords -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Freedom of Action -- Part One: World War And Decolonization -- 1. Atomic Earths and State-Making, 1940s-1948 -- 2. Radium to Reactors, 1948-1953 -- Part Two: Cold and Hot Wars -- 3. Nuclear Marketplace Opens for Business, 1953-1962 -- 4. Plutonium, Power Reactors, and Space Projects, 1962-1964 -- 5. The Plowshare Loophole, 1964-1970 -- Part Three: Unmaking and Making of India -- 6. Fractured Worlds, 1970-1974 -- 7. Explosion and Fallout, 1974-1980s -- Epilogue: The Anti-Dissent Machine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Title Ploughshares and swords : India's nuclear program in the global Cold War
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