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

Sarkar, Jayita

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

dc.contributor.author	Sarkar, Jayita
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-20T14:11:23Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-20T14:11:23Z
dc.date.issued	2022-07-15
dc.description.abstract	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 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 choke points 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.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7298/6r4m-hm30
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501764400 (print hardcover)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501765018 (print paperback)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501764417 (epub)
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501764424 (PDF ebook)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113101
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Cornell University Press	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Anti-dissent machine	en_US
dc.subject	Pokhran Sikkim	en_US
dc.subject	India's Space Program	en_US
dc.subject	Nuclear Warfare	en_US
dc.subject	Ploughshare Loophole	en_US
dc.title	Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War	en_US
dc.type	book	en_US
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