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Summary:

"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"- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : 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.

Author/Creator:

Sarkar, Jayita, 1986- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ploughshares and swords: India's nuclear program in the global Cold War [by Sarkar, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ploughshares and swords [by Sarkar, J.] (Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 — ISBN 9781501764400; LCCN 2021054784)

Subjects:

Nuclear energy — India — History — 20th century

Nuclear energy — Government policy — India — History — 20th century

Nuclear weapons — India — History — 20th century

Nuclear weapons — Government policy — India — History — 20th century

Technology and state — India — History — 20th century

India — Foreign relations — 1947-1984

Technology and state

Nuclear weapons — Government policy

Nuclear weapons

Nuclear energy — Government policy

Nuclear energy

Diplomatic relations

India

1900-1999

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD9698.I52 S275 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781501764417 (epub)
1501764411
9781501764424 (pdf)
150176442X
9781501764400 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021054785

OCLC Numbers:

1292532856