India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)

by George Perkovich (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $6.14

  In May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove India's new Hindu nationalist government to depart from decades of nuclear restraint, a control that no other nation with similar capacities had displayed? How has US nonproliferation policy affected India's decision making? This text provides a comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, the nation of Gandhi, has grappled with the twin desires to have and to renounce the bomb.