Jayita Sarkar

Ploughshares and Swords

India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"-

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781501765018
• ISBN-10: 1501765019
• Artikelnr.: 63623346

Autorenporträt

Jayita Sarkar is Senior Lecturer in Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow. Follow her on X @DrJSarkar.

Inhaltsangabe

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