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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910574867103321
• Autore: Sarkar Jayita <1986->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-5017-6440-3; 1-5017-6501-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource)
• Disciplina: 333.792/40954
• Soggetti: Technology and state; Nuclear weapons - Government policy; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear energy - Government policy; Nuclear energy; Diplomatic relations; Politique scientifique et technique - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle; Armes nucleaires - Politique gouvernementale - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle; Armes nucleaires - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle; Énergie nucleaire - Politique gouvernementale - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle; Énergie nucleaire - Inde - Histoire - 20e siecle; Technology and state - India - History - 20th century; Nuclear weapons - Government policy - India - History - 20th century; Nuclear weapons - India - History - 20th century; Nuclear energy - Government policy - India - History - 20th century; Nuclear energy - India - History - 20th century; History; India; Inde Relations exterieures 1947-1984; India Foreign relations 1947-1984
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"-