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100 1 _aSarkar, Jayita,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aPloughshares and Swords :
_bIndia's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War /
_cJayita Sarkar.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2022
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.) :
_b13 b&w halftones, 3 maps
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Maps and Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction: F reedom of Action --
_tPart One: World War And Decolonization --
_t1. Atomic Earths and State-Making, 1940s-1948 --
_t2. Radium to Reactors, 1948-1953 --
_tPart Two: Cold and Hot Wars --
_t3. Nuclear Marketplace Opens for Business, 1953-1962 --
_t4. Plutonium, Power Reactors, and Space Projects, 1962-1964 --
_t5. The Plowshare Loophole, 1964-1970 --
_tPart Three: Unmaking and Making of India --
_t6. Fractured Worlds, 1970-1974 --
_t7. Explosion and Fallout, 1974-198 --
_tEpilogue: The Anti-Dissent Machine --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _funrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aIndia'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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
540 _aThis eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
_uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650 0 _aNuclear energy
_xGovernment policy
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aNuclear energy
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_xGovernment policy
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aTechnology and state
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aInternational Studies.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
_2bisacsh
653 _aploughshare loophole, anti-dissent machine, pokhran sikkim, reagan administration nuclear weapons, India's space program, india nuclear weapons.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501764424?locatt=mode:legacy
_zOpen Access
_70
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501764424
_zOpen Access
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856 4 2 _3Cover
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