Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War /

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India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares & 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 pro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sarkar, Jayita (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Temas:
1900-1999
Nuclear energy > Government policy > India > History > 20th century.
Nuclear energy > India > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > Government policy > India > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > India > History > 20th century.
Technology and state > India > History > 20th century.
Asian Studies.
International Studies.
U.S. History.
Énergie nucléaire > Politique gouvernementale > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Énergie nucléaire > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Armes nucléaires > Politique gouvernementale > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Armes nucléaires > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Politique scientifique et technique > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy > Government policy
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons > Government policy
Technology and state
India
ploughshare loophole, anti-dissent machine, pokhran sikkim, reagan administration nuclear weapons, India's space program, india nuclear weapons.
History
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Sumario:India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares & 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 chokepoints 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 p.) : 13 b&w halftones, 3 maps
ISBN:9781501764424
150176442X

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