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
Ausgabe:	1
Schlagworte:	20th Century anti-dissent machine Asia Asian history General and world history HISTORY History and Archaeology India & South Asia India > Foreign relations > 1947-1984 india nuclear weapons India's space program Military Modern Nuclear energy Nuclear energy > Government policy > India > History > 20th century Nuclear energy > India > History > 20th century Nuclear Warfare Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons > Government policy > India > History > 20th century Nuclear weapons > India > History > 20th century ploughshare loophole pokhran sikkim reagan administration nuclear weapons Society and Social Sciences Technology and state Technology and state > India > History > 20th century Warfare and defence Weapons and equipment
ISBN:	1501765019, 9781501765018, 9781501764400, 150176442X, 1501764403, 9781501764417, 1501764411, 9781501764424
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
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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